TY - JOUR
AB - Mlamuli Nkosingphile Being Black in Hlatshwayo Dr Mlamuli Nkosingphile South African higher Hlatshwayo, School of Education, University of education: An KwaZulu-Natal E-mail: HlatshwayoM@ukzn.ac.za intersectional insight DOI: http://dx.doi. First submission: 14 February 2020 org/10.18820/24150479/aa52i2/9 Acceptance: 4 August 2020 ISSN:0587-2405 Published: 31 December 2020 e-ISSN: 2415-0479 Acta Academica • 2020 52(2): 163-180 South African higher education continues to struggle to © Creative Commons With Attribution (CC-BY) make sense of the post 2015-2016 student movements in calling for institutional transformation and decolo- nisation of the academy (Heleta 2016; Mbembe 2016; Naicker 2015). In this article, I contribute to the emerging body of work that looks at transformation and decolonisation in South African higher education. I draw from the American feminist scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theoretical tools of intersectionality and Nat Nakasa’s and, more recently, Siseko Kumalo’s (2018) conceptual notion of the “natives of nowhere” to do two things. I firstly use the theoretical tools to map the fragmented and differentiated nature of South African higher education, and the implications this has for decoloniality to emerge. Secondly, I trace the intersectional struggles that Black students and progressive Black academics continue to face in the South African academy, and the discursive struggles operating at different 
TI - Being Black in South African higher education: An intersectional insight
JO - Acta Academica
DO - 10.18820/24150479/aa52i2/9
DA - 2121-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/being-black-in-south-african-higher-education-an-intersectional-5n8NU0atx0
DP - DeepDyve
ER -