What Racists Believe

Despite its legal abolition racial inequality persists in many democratic societies. Entering a new era of democracy South Africa is endeavouring to dismantle its legally structured system of inequality. In practice however the structures of consciousness which gave rise to and nurtured a system of white privilege and predominance are tenacious and enduring.</p><p></p><p>In <b>What Racists Believe</b> Gerhard Schutte examines evidence which illustrates how the consciousness of whites in South Africa has been reproduced and maintained revealing a range of social constructions and typifications of blacks. He concludes with a chapter comparing contemporary racial attitudes in South Africa and the United States.