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Title:

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

Publisher:

UCT Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xxxii, 240 p. : 21 cm. 21 cm.

Subject:

Colored people (South Africa)--Race identity.
Racially mixed people--Race identity--Africa, Southern.
South Africa--Race relations.
Africa, Southern--Race relations.

Other Authors:

Adhikari, Mohamed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

1919895140 (pbk.)
9781919895147 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)313322129

LCCN:

2009404675

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)