Burdened By Race : Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
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Burdened By Race : Coloured Identities in Southern Africa

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Burdened By Race : Coloured Identities in Southern Africa

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Burdened By Race : Coloured Identities in Southern Africa by Mohamed Adhikari in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & World History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
UCT Press
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9781920499426
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Imprint page
  4. Table of contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Introduction: Predicaments of marginality: cultural creativity and political adaptation in southern Africa’s coloured communities
  8. Chapter 1: From narratives of miscegenation to post-modernist re-imagining: towards a historiography of coloured identity in South Africa
  9. Chapter 2: ‘… [C]onfused about being coloured’: creolisation and coloured identity in Chris van Wyk’s Shirley, Goodness and Mercy
  10. Chapter 3: Trauma and memory: theimpact of apartheid-era forced removals on coloured identity in Cape Town
  11. Chapter 4: Identity and forced displacement: community and colouredness in District Six
  12. Chapter 5: Collaboration, assimilation and contestation: emerging constructions of coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa
  13. Chapter 6: ’We are the original inhabitants of this land’: Khoe-San identity in post-apartheid South Africa
  14. Chapter 7: Race, ethnicity and the politics of positioning: the making of coloured identity in colonial Zimbabwe, 1890–1980
  15. Chapter 8: Absent white fathers: coloured identity in Zambia
  16. Chapter 9: ‘A generous dream, but difficult to realize’: the making of the Anglo-African community of Nyasaland, 1929–1940
  17. Index