The Lived Experience of Discrimination of White Women in Committed Interracial Relationships with Black Men
Adopting a descriptive phenomenological approach, this study explores the experiences of discrimination of white women in committed interracial relationships with black men within the South African context. Three white females in committed interracial relationships with black males were recruited an...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Rhodes University
[2015]
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The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
Jahr: 2015, Band: 15, Heft: 2, Seiten: 1-16 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Südafrika
/ Interethnische Liebesbeziehung
/ Weiße Frau
/ Diskriminierung
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| IxTheo Notationen: | KBN Subsahara-Afrika ZB Soziologie |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Adopting a descriptive phenomenological approach, this study explores the experiences of discrimination of white women in committed interracial relationships with black men within the South African context. Three white females in committed interracial relationships with black males were recruited and interviewed. Open-ended interviews were conducted in order to elicit rich and in-depth first-person descriptions of the participants' lived experiences of discrimination as a result of being in committed interracial relationships. The data analysis entailed a descriptive phenomenological content analysis and description. The results of this study suggest that white women in committed interracial relationships with black men experience discrimination in various contexts, where discrimination manifests as either a negative or a positive encounter; in addition, discrimination evokes various emotional responses and is coped with in either maladaptive or adaptive ways. Finally, the experience of discrimination, although personal, necessarily impacts on the interracial relationship. The nature and impact of discrimination experienced by white women in committed interracial relationships with black men is thus multi-layered and both an intra-personal and an inter-personal phenomenon. |
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| ISSN: | 1445-7377 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/20797222.2015.1101834 |