The lived experience of being privileged as a white English-speaking young adult in post-apartheid South Africa: a phenomenological study

Although transformation processes are making progress in addressing racial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa, white South Africans are, in many repects, still privileged, economically, in terms of access to services, land, education and particularly in the case of English-speaking whites, language. This study is an exploration of everyday situations of inequality as they have been experienced from a position of advantage. As a qualitative, phenomenological study, the aim was to derive the psychological essence of the experience of being privileged as white English-speaking young adult within the context of post-apartheid South African everyday life.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

University of the Western Cape

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Truscott, Ross Brian.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Naidoo, Pamela

• Post-apartheid era
• South Africa
• Social conditions
• Whites (South African)
• Race identity
• Race discrimination