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illustrations, charts, figures, tables
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9781920516604
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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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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
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' .. [C]onfused about being coloured' : creolisation and coloured identity in Chris van Wyk's Shirley, Goodness and Mercy
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Trauma and memory : the impact of apartheid-era forced removals on coloured identity in Cape Town
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Identity and forced displacement : community and colouredness in District Six
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Collaboration, assimilation and contestation : emerging constructions of coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa
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'We are the original inhabitants of this land' : Khoe-San identity in post-apartheid South Africa
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Race, ethnicity and the politics of positioning : the making of coloured identity in colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1980
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Absent white fathers : coloured identity in Zambia
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'A generous dream, but difficult to realize' : the making of the Anglo-African community of Nyasaland, 1929-1940
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Also issued in print and PDF version.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781919895147
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781920499426
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Print version Burdened By Race, Coloured Identities in Southern Africa Cape Town, South Africa : UCT Press
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Ethnology
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Sociology
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