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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 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Alternative Title
Coloured identities in southern Africa
Subject
  • Colored people (South Africa) > Race identity
  • Racially mixed people > Race identity > Africa, Southern
  • Sociology
  • African history
  • Society
  • Colored people (South Africa) > Race identity
  • Race relations
  • Racially mixed people > Race identity
  • Person of Color
  • Ethnische Identität
  • Rassenverhoudingen
  • Identiteit
  • Farbiger
  • Identität
  • Ethnische Beziehung
  • South Africa > Race relations
  • Africa, Southern > Race relations
  • Southern Africa
  • South Africa
  • Südafrika Kontinent
  • Südafrika
  • Zuid-Afrika
  • Südafrika (Region)
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
  • 1919895140
LCCN
2009404675
OCLC
  • ocn313322129
  • 313322129
  • SCSB-1543176
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library