ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how a group of black students at a historically "white only" South African university disrupts the stereotypes of blackness that they encounter, and in particular, how Photovoice methodology can be used to engage young people around the issues and encourage resistance. It also explores how a group of young people who participated in a Photovoice project at University of Cape Town attempted to resist and challenge stigmatizing discourses, rather than how they learned to cope within them. The chapter extends the work and focuses on the resistance strategies that black students use in higher education. It demonstrates the importance for young people in education to develop a critical consciousness of the racialized experiences they face, and the possibility for resistance and re-presentation. Across a variety of contexts and countries, discourses around and representations of young black people in education are often deeply stereotyped and stigmatizing.
