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What's changed? : The racial orientations of South African adolescents during rapid political change Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Childhood

Vol.9, n°2

Dawes, Andrew

Finchilescu, Gillian

19

2002

147-165

Adolescence Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Changement social Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Conscience de race Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

ang

1461-7013

Afrique du sud

The authors outline cross-sectional studies (across time and age) of the effects of the political changes in South Africa on the intergroup orientations of adolescents, as well as their orientations to the new democracy. The study was undertaken between 1992 (before the end of apartheid) and 1996 (after apartheid), with 14-yr-old and 17-yr-old high school students from formerly designated Black, Colored, White, and Indian population groups. Participants completed Duckitt's Subtle Racism Anti-Black Scale, a Repertory Grid following Kelly, and measures of adjustment to political change. The results indicate that levels of anti-Black African racism, particularly among Whites previously advantaged under apartheid, were high in both years, and increased with the emergence of the new state. In addition, the study found that orientations towards the new political dispensation were related to levels of racism. Some evidence of outgroup preference for Whites was evident among Black participants, while a degree of outgroup rejection of other Black groups was also evident among these groups in 1996.