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Constructing Race: Youth, Identity, and Popular Culture in South Africa fujoshi entertainersAs apartheid crumbled in South Africa, racial identity was thrown into question. Based on a year long ethnographic study of a multiracial high school in Durban, this book explores how youth make meaning of the still powerful, yet changing, idea of race. In a world saturated with media images and global commodities, fashion and music become charged, polarized racial identifiers. As youth engage with this world, race simultaneously persists and falters,