Afrikaner identity production is studied as socially constructed and fluid

Evidence

Interviewing, transcription and analysis was done in Afrikaans in order to retain as much of the original meaning as possible. Unfortunately, it is unavoidable that any translation implies an added layer of interpretation. Interviews were analysed using a discursive and rhetorical approach, paying careful attention to strategies by which participants constructed and defended identity positions and the discursive resources they drew on to do so. In this frame, identity is seen as something socially constructed and fluid. The results cannot be used to argue that all Afrikaners everywhere construct their identity in similar ways. The results do, however, demonstrate important features of the strategies and constraints of identity production for Afrikaners a decade and a half after the fall of apartheid. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 61

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s test question about whether grievance circuits persist decoupled from power — this describes the methodological frame (discursive/rhetorical identity analysis) that would answer it. — connects to: Afrikaner identity claims African belonging through soul, not skin colour — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 30; Afrikaner identity formed as a reaction against the threat of racial mixture; Afrikaner identity crystallized from the perceived twin threats of British and black — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1382 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Identity is constituted through social action and language rather than merely reflected in behavior #expands (0.90) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 19
• Afrikaner identity formed as a reaction against the threat of racial mixture #qualifies (0.85)
• Afrikaner identity crystallized from the perceived twin threats of British and black #qualifies (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1382
• Anticipatory threat of mixture forged Afrikaner ethnic mobilization and racial theology. #qualifies (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1383
• Afrikaner collective identity inverted nearly every Dutch cultural trait in reaction to racial mixture #qualifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1383