Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters: Producing Persons in Manenberg Township South Africa

Abstract

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Praise for Elain Salo and for this Book -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Sophie Oldfield. African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town -- Desiree Lewis. Women's and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape -- Chapter 1 - Manenberg - An In-between Place with In-between People -- A. Introduction -- B. Autobiography and the research context: On being the 'native' anthropologist -- C. Negotiating access to Manenberg -- D. Learning about mothering in Manenberg -- E. The theoretical debates about structure and agency in contemporary anthropology -- F. Power, agency and structure -- G. Personhood, agency and power -- H. Personhood and agency in the context of a South African township -- Chapter 2 - Making Race, Making Space: Locating Coloureds in South African History and Urban Planning -- A. Discourse and debate about race on the margins -- B. Coloured in relation to which other? Depends on where you're coming from -- C. Segregation and apartheid: the makings of the racially exclusive nation -- D. Unifying white identity: the era of segregation -- E. Making nations: Apartheid's imagined communities -- F. Racial stratification and urban space in Cape Town, 1800s-1980s -- G. Manenberg and the racial ideology of apartheid after 1950 -- Chapter 3 - Clearing the Wilderness: Defining Identity from Within -- A. Coming to Manenberg: Erased histories and displaced persons -- B. The loss of personhood and identity -- C. Peopling Manenberg: Stories of arrival -- D. Clearing the social and natural wilderness: Defining colouredness in the new place -- E. Defining identity from within the local spaces: A view from the periphery within -- F. Thirty years after the move: The economic and cultural aspects of identity in the local context -- G. The economic capital of local identity