Social psychological research has increasingly extolled the benefits of intergroup contact as
a means of promoting positive relations. However, a growing body of research suggests that …

This book tells the story of white South African students—how they remember and enact an
Apartheid past they were never part of. How is it that young Afrikaners, born at the time of …

Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race In Race Otherwise: Forging
a New Humanism for South Africa Zimitri Erasmus questions the notion that one can …

Intergroup contact is known to promote positive intergroup relations. However, in natural
settings race groups tend to self‐segregate. Prejudice and metaperceptions are …

Since the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, increasing numbers of black students
have been enrolling at historically whites-only universities. This situation has been …

We investigate the effects of sociopolitical change on intergroup contact and social distance
attitudes in South Africa, and the effect of these variables on intergroup attitudes and racial …

In many contemporary societies, the potential benefits of racial integration are undermined
by de facto or informal segregation. The present research focuses on this phenomenon, and …

Apartheid laws and policies served to create a hierarchy of four apparently distinct races in
South Africa, which were systematically segregated from each other and provided with …

This article extends critiques of contact theory. It notes four deeper limitations:(1) what I call a
“psychometric imaginary”;(2) an assumption that “race” is given, homogeneous and …

In spite of the removal of legislated racial segregation, a number of observational studies in
South Africa and elsewhere have shown that “informal,” nonlegislated segregation persists …