ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the ways in which Black male teachers who engage in same-sex relations, from rural and township contexts of KwaZulu-Natal, narrate and construct their sexual and professional identities in post-apartheid South Africa. It focuses on whiteness often privileges whiteness, entrenching it in a normative position: an all-encompassing power that regulates and controls Black powerless subjectivities. The book highlights the problematic assumptions that construct teachers who engage in same-sex relations as asexual, oppressed and powerless in South African professional spaces and have suggested a far more complex picture. The 'negotiation' process has to be informed by an approach that seeks to foreground Africanist perspectives in the disruption of empire. In essence, culture and religion constitute the imperial regimes that regulate the performance of both sexual and professional identities as the teachers appealed to the institutions in leading their daily lives.
