Using current socio-political thought and research, the authors of Social Psychology – Identities and Relationships examine topics such as violence, social and political transition, race and racism, and sexualities. Identities and interpersonal relationships are used as ordering themes to create a book that is truly distinctive.

Part 1: Contents and Concepts

• Introduction: A Psychology of a Society
• Social Psychology and Research Methods

Part 2: Race, Racism and Identities

• Racism: A Social Psychological Perspective
• Race, Racism and the Media
• Bodies and Apartheid
• Frantz Fanon and Racial Identity in Post-Colonial Contexts
• Black Adolescent Identity During and After Apartheid
• Identity Dynamics and the Politics of Self-Definition

Part 3: Intimacy, Inequality and Gendered Violence

• Women Abuse: A Critical Review
• Gender Inequality, Family Relations and Passion Crime
• Black Women’s Identities
• ‘Mixed’ Relations

Part 4: Sexualities and Masculinities: Histories and Future Possibilities

• Lesbianism
• Heterosexuality
• Historical Representations of ‘Race’, Masculinity and Homosexuality

Part 5: Psychology and the Political, the Social and Leadership

• Political Leadership in the Context of Reconciliation
• Street Life and the Construction of Social Problems
• Understanding and Preventing Violence