Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Communication Studies) by Subject "Identity"

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Black erasure and celebrity peddling of whiteness : a study of skin bleaching among black women in South Africa

Motseki, Mpho Cynthia (2019)

Skin bleaching has become a growing norm in South Africa among black women. Well-known South African celebrities such as Kelly Khumalo and Khanyi Mbau are associated with lightening their skin. In West Africa, the ...
A critical analysis of phenomenological narratives of coloured females about their hair, race and identity in Polokwane, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Reineke, Domanique (2025)

During apartheid South Africa, one of the imperatives of the Coloured identity was to be White in mind, spirit, and appearance to benefit from the socio-economic privileges associated with Whiteness. This included ...

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