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Xenophilia in Muizenberg, South Africa: New potentials for race relations?
Author(s) -
OWEN JOY
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1111/ciso.12097
Subject(s) - race (biology) , cape , psyche , gender studies , democracy , transnationalism , geography , political science , sociology , ethnology , politics , archaeology , psychology , law , psychoanalysis
Since the advent of democracy in 1994 race relations in South Africa have not improved substantially. The arrival of transmigrants from other African countries has emphasized a wounded South African psyche, as various xenophobic attitudes and attacks attest. However, a lesser known reality is the expression of xenophilia by South African women. In this article I argue that an intimate relationship between a South African coloured woman and a Congolese black man scripts a different potentiality for multiracial relations in the private and public spaces of urban Cape Town, South Africa. [Coloured; Congolese; Xenophilia; South Africa; Race; Love; Transnationalism]