Burdened by race : Coloured identities in southern Africa / / edited by Mohamed Adhikari.

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxxii, 240 p. :; ill.
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Table of 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.