Race for Education

Mark Hunter is Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto. His research methods combine ethnographic, historical, and geographical techniques and his first book, Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa (2010), won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize and the 2010 C. Wright Mills Award.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. Racial Modernism, 1950s and '60s: 2. 'Larney' and 'rough and tough' schools: the making of White Durban; 3. Umlazi township and the gendered 'bond of education'; Part II. Marketised Assimilation, late 1970s–1990s: 4. The routes of schooling desegregation: protest, cooption, and marketised assimilation, 1976–2000; Part III. Schooling and Work after Apartheid: 5. From school to work: symbolic power and social networks; Part IV. Racialised Market, 2000s–: 6. 'What can you do for the school?' The racialised market, 2000s–; 7. New families on the bluff: selling a child in the schooling market; 8. Beneath the 'black tax' in Umlazi: class, family relations and schooling; 9. Conclusions: hegemony on a school bus.

'Mark Hunter has produced the definitive text on the sociology of urban education in South Africa … the book offers a novel account of how post-apartheid educational reforms have not led to the 'de-whitening' of the grammar of privilege … [and] to understandings of schooling and youth identity in globalised cities.' Aslam Fataar, Universiteit Stellenbosch, South Africa and former President of the South African Education Research Association