Coping with racism : exploring the experiences of the post-1994 generation of black students at a historically whites-only university in South Africa

dc.contributor.authorHufft, Esi
dc.contributor.authorSibanda, Sharon
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-29T11:44:05Z
dc.date.available2024-04-29T11:44:05Z
dc.date.issued2023-12
dc.description.abstractThis study explored how the post-apartheid generation of Black students cope with institutional racism and overt acts of racism at an historically Whites-only university. The experiences reported by Black students indicate that racism can manifest in various forms across different aspects of their lives. These experiences encompass institutional, academic, social, and emotional realms of their lived realities. N=6 Black students were interviewed to explore their experiences of racism and their coping mechanisms, using semi-structured interviews. A transcendental phenomenological research design underpinned the study in its focus on the shared lived racial experiences of post-apartheid Black students in an historically Whites-only university. Thematic analysis (TA) was used as a method of data analysis to elucidate these experiences. To align with the aim of the study, the analysis of gathered data employed a thematic approach grounded in social stress theory. The findings reveal that overt acts of racism and institutional racism perpetually afflict Black students, in post-apartheid South Africa. Five themes, and one overarching theme of coping defences were generated: academic determination, boldness, physically and emotionally escaping, faith, support, and inclusion. Fundamentally, the findings demonstrate that Black students adopt both adaptive and maladaptive defences of coping with their experiences of racism, with perpetual psychological costs to their emotional and academic functioning.en_US
dc.description.departmentPsychologyen_US
dc.description.librarianam2024en_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-10:Reduces inequalitiesen_US
dc.description.urihttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/cpgpen_US
dc.identifier.citationHufft, E & Sibanda, S.B. 2023, 'Coping with racism : exploring the experiences of the post-1994 generation of black students at a historically whites-only university in South Africa', Community Psychology in Global Perspective, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 61-83, doi : 10.1285/i24212113v9i2p61.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2421-2113
dc.identifier.other10.1285/i24212113v9i2p61
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/95794
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversita del Salentoen_US
dc.rights© Universita del Salento. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione - Non commerciale - Non opere derivate 3.0 Italia License.en_US
dc.subjectRacismen_US
dc.subjectPost-apartheiden_US
dc.subject'Born-free’ Black generationen_US
dc.subjectCoping with racismen_US
dc.subjectHistorically Whites-only Universityen_US
dc.subjectSocial stress theoryen_US
dc.subjectSDG-10: Reduced inequalitiesen_US
dc.titleCoping with racism : exploring the experiences of the post-1994 generation of black students at a historically whites-only university in South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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