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THEME 6 / TEMA 6Critical Race Theory / Kritiese Rasteorie
Mosikatsana “Critical Race Theory” in Roederer & Moellendorf
(eds.) Jurisprudence 2004 272-290.
The author draws comparisons between experiences in SA and USA.
Die outeur maak vergelykings tussen ondervindinge in SA en die VSA.
Both were colonised by Europeans who institutionalised a social system
based on a racial hierarchy in which a white skin entitled one to the
privileges of power and citizenship rights.
Beide lande was gekolonialiseer deur Europeërs wat ‘n sosiale sisteem
gebaseer op rasse hiërargie ingestel het, waar ‘n wit vel beteken het dat ‘n
persoon geregtig is op die voordele van mag en burgerskapsregte.
Blacks were denied citizenship rights and were relegated to nothing more
than a source of cheap labour.
Swart persone was burgerskapsregte geweier en gerelegeer na niks meer as
goedkoop arbeid nie.
Over and above the institutionalised system of class and racial
discrimination in these countries, is the system of patriarchy based on
gender discrimination. In terms of the added patriarchal system of power,
white men are at the top of the hierarchical system of power, with Black
women at the bottom of the ladder experiencing the triple oppression
based on class, race and gender.
Daar bestaan nie slegs geïnstitusionaliseerde sisteme van klas- en rasse
diskriminasie in beide lande nie, maar ook patriargie gebaseer op
diskriminasie op grond van geslag. In terme van die patriargiese sisteem
van mag is wit mans bo aan die hiërargie, terwyl swart vroue onder aan die
hiërargie is en ‘n trippel diskriminasie ervaar op grond van klas, ras en
geslag.
Blacks in both countries are over-represented among the poor, illiterate
and in the respective counties’ jails. This is largely due to the legacy of
racism.
Swart persone in beide lande is in die meerderheid verteenwoordigend van
die armes, ongeletterdes en tronke. Dit is grotendeels as gevolg van die
nalatenskap van rassisme.
CLS:
“If there is a single theme, it is that the law is an instrument of social, economic
and political domination, both in the sense of furthering the concrete interests of
the dominators and in that of legitimating the existing order.”
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