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Burdened by race : Coloured identities in southern Africa /

Title
Burdened by race : Coloured identities in southern Africa / edited by Mohamed Adhikari.
Publication
Cape Town : UCT Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors
Adhikari, Mohamed.
Description
xxxii, 240 p. :; ill. ; 21 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9781919895147 (pbk.)
  • 1919895140 (pbk.)
LCCN
2009404675
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library