Burdened by race [electronic resource] : Coloured identities in southern Africa / edited by Mohamed Adhikari.

Contributor(s): Adhikari, Mohamed | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cape Town : UCT Press, 2009Description: xxxii, 240 p. : illISBN: 9781920499426 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Colored people (South Africa) -- Race identity | Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- Africa, Southern | South Africa -- Race relations | Africa, Southern -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: DT1768.C65 | B87 2009Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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