Topic: Black and White Ways of Talking About Race: Shattering the Myth of a Post-Racial Consensus

Presenter: Associate Professor Xolela Mangcu 
 

Xolela Mangcu is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town, and Oppenheimer Fellow at the Hutchins Centre for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author and co-author of eight books, and more than a dozen journal articles and book chapters, including Biko: A Biography (2012). His book on race in contemporary South Africa, The Colour of Our Future, was published by Wits University Press in 2015. Mangcu is widely known for his columns in Business Day, the Weekender, the Sunday Independent, the Sowetan, and his op-ed articles in City Press and the Sunday Times. He is also a regular contributor to the international magazine on African current affairs, The New African.Mangcu was the Founder of the Platform for Public Deliberation and Founding Executive Director of the Steve Biko Foundation. He has also held fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Rockefeller Foundation.