Burdened by race : Coloured identities in southern Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Adhikari, Mohamed
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cape Town : UCT Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Colored people (South Africa) > Race identity. Racially mixed people > Race identity > Africa, Southern. South Africa > Race relations. Africa, Southern > Race relations.

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.