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Titolo: |
Burdened by race [[electronic resource] ] : Coloured identities in southern Africa / / edited by Mohamed Adhikari
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Pubblicazione: | Cape Town, : UCT Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.800968 |
Soggetto topico: | Colored people (South Africa) - Race identity |
Racially mixed people - Race identity - Africa, Southern | |
Soggetto geografico: | South Africa Race relations |
Africa, Southern Race relations | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
AdhikariMohamed
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Examines diverse manifestations of coloredness in southern Africa, with case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, to present analyses that challenge and overturn the conventional wisdom around colored identity. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Burdened by race ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-920516-60-3 |
1-920499-42-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910213858803321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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