Burdened by race : Coloured identities in southern Africa /

Since its emergence in the late 19th century, coloured identity has been pivotal to racial thinking in southern Africa. The nature of colouredness is a highly emotive and controversial issue as it embodies many of the racial antagonisms, ambiguities and derogations prevalent in the subcontinent. Thr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adhikari, Mohamed
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cape Town : UCT Press, 2009.
©2009
Colección:Free online access: Knowledge Unlatched.
Temas:
Colored people (South Africa) > Race identity.
Racially mixed people > Race identity > Africa, Southern.
Métis > Afrique du Sud > Identité ethnique.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Social groups.
Ethnic studies.
Ethnic minorities and multicultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Colored people (South Africa) > Race identity
Race relations
Racially mixed people > Race identity
South Africa > Race relations.
Africa, Southern > Race relations.
Afrique du Sud > Relations raciales.
Afrique australe > Relations raciales.
Southern Africa
South Africa
Coloured identity
Coloured self-identification
History
Marginal minorities
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Predicaments of marginality : cultural creativity and political adaptation in southern Africa's coloured communities
  • From narratives of miscegenation to post-modernist re-imagining : towards a historiography of coloured identity in South Africa / Mohamed Adhikari
  • ' ... [C]onfused about being coloured' : creolisation and coloured identity in Chris van Wyk's Shirley, Goodness and Mercy / Helene Strauss
  • Trauma and memory : the impact of apartheid-era forced removals on coloured identity in Cape Town / Henry Trotter
  • Identity and forced displacement : community and colouredness in District Six / Christiaan Beyers
  • Collaboration, assimilation and contestation : emerging constructions of coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa / Michele Ruiters
  • 'We are the original inhabitants of this land' : Khoe-San identity in post-apartheid South Africa / Michael Besten
  • Race, ethnicity and the politics of positioning : the making of coloured identity in colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1980 / James Muzondidya
  • Absent white fathers : coloured identity in Zambia / Juliette Milner-Thornton
  • 'A generous dream, but difficult to realize' : the making of the Anglo-African community of Nyasaland, 1929-1940 / Christopher Lee.

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