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THE NATION IS NEVER A FIXED SUBJECT, but always in flux and a major focus of contestation. Elements of the state and factions of civil society project and dispute varying images of who is to be included as a member of the polity, so specifying obligations, allocation of benefits, and rights. The result at any one time is a set of images of solidarity and rules of citizenship that remains fluid. Precisely because this process is central to the defining, demarcating, and implementing of the community and social identities, it remains a primary subject of politics.1
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NOTES
See Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
See Leonard Thompson, A History of South Africa (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990).
See Anthony W. Marx, Making Race and Nation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
See Anthony W. Marx, “Class Discord and Racial Order,” Politikon 26, no. 1 (May 1999): 81–102.
Tim Sisk, Democratization in South Africa (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).
See Tom Lodge, Black Politics in South Africa Since 1945 (Johannesburg, South Africa: Ravan, 1983); Gail Gerhart, Black Power in South Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978).
See Anthony W. Marx, Lessons of Struggle (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
See Steven Friedman, Building Tomorrow Today (Johannesburg, South Africa: Ravan, 1987).
Michael Bratton, “After Mandela’s Miracle in South Africa,” Current History (May 1998): 214–19.
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Marx, A.W. (2008). The Ongoing Contestation over Nationhood. In: Marable, M., Agard-Jones, V. (eds) Transnational Blackness. The Critical Black Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230615397_5
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