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1 online resource (xxxii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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Knowledge Unlatched |
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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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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. Throughout their existence coloured communities have had to contend with being marginal minorities stigmatised as the insalubrious by-products of miscegenation. Burdened By Race showcases recent innovative research and writing on coloured identity in southern Africa. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and applying fresh theoretical insights, the book brings new levels of understanding to processes of coloured self-identification. It examines diverse manifestations of colouredness, using interlinking themes and case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi to present analyses that challenge and overturn much of the conventional wisdom around identity in the current literature |
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Coloured identity |
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Coloured self-identification |
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History |
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Marginal minorities |
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Southern Africa |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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In English |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Knowledge Unlatched |
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Colored people (South Africa) -- Race identity
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Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- Africa, Southern
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Society and culture: general.
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Social groups.
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Ethnic studies.
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Ethnic minorities and multicultural studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Colored people (South Africa) -- Race identity
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Race relations
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Racially mixed people -- Race identity
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South Africa -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494
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Africa, Southern -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003009625
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Southern Africa
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South Africa
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Adhikari, Mohamed.
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| ISBN |
9781920499426 |
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1920499423 |
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9781919895741 |
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1919895744 |
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9781938803116 |
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1938803116 |
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