Discourses on Difference, Discourses on Oppression

Abstract

Background: The Textbook Writing Project, based at the University of Venda for Science and Technology, seeks to evaluate the use or self-empowerment authorship collectives as a means for redressing extant "racialised" patterns or authorship in the social sciences in South Africa and to examine the relationship between discourses of difference and oppression "(Thakhathi :x I I ). This book is a product of that project. It is a collection of 21 essays that are interconnected through a common concern with the politics of identity.