Afrikaner identity claims African belonging through soul, not skin colour

Evidence

Max Du Preez writes that: … Just as I cannot change the colour of my skin, I cannot become an American, European or Australian. I would be an alien forever, like a polar bear in the Pretoria zoo. My soul is African. My skin colour is the only European thing about me … African/Afrikaner. I am both. I call myself after the continent twice … I am a native of this land, but unlike most other natives, I am pale. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 30

Categorization

• SEED: Du Preez’s ‘polar bear in the Pretoria zoo’ image and his doubling on the continent name is fertile for an essay on settler indigeneity claims versus postcolonial reckoning.
• XREF: connects to: Apartheid officialdom avoided ‘African’ because it etymologically meant Afrikaner — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 31; Afrikaner identity production is studied as socially constructed and fluid — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 61; Afrikaner grievance identity persisted after displacement by reattaching to whiteness rather than dissolving. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 187

Broader Connections

• Afrikaner grievance identity persisted after displacement by reattaching to whiteness rather than dissolving. #complicates (0.85) — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 187
• Afrikaner identity production is studied as socially constructed and fluid #complicates (0.75) — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 61