Burdened by Race: Coloured Identities in Southern AfricaMohamed Adhikari 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. |
Contents
From narratives of miscegenation to post | 1 |
Confused about being coloured creolisation | 23 |
Trauma and memory the impact of apartheidera | 49 |
Identity and forced displacement community | 79 |
Collaboration assimilation and contestation emerging | 104 |
We are the original inhabitants of this land KhoeSan | 134 |
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activists Adhikari analysis Anglo-African Anglo-African Association apartheid British Broomfield Buckingham Palace Cape Argus Cape coloureds Cape Town CCHDC Census claims colonial coloured children coloured community coloured identity coloured political coloured removees colouredness commemoration narrative construction context Coon Carnival creolisation cultural David Philip debate defined discourse distinct District Six dominant elites Erasmus essentialist Eurafricans European Folio forced removals gangsterism Griqua Group Areas half-caste Henry Trotter heritage Hottentot identify identity in South ideology immigrants Indian indigenous instrumentalist interviewed by Henry James Muzondidya Kachalola Khoe-San identity Khoekhoe Khoisan land lives marginalised marginality memory miscegenation mixed-race movement native Ngcelwane non-racial Northern Rhodesia Nyasaland official organisations population post-apartheid South Africa race racial racialised racist Riverlea rule Sala Kahle segregation sense settler Sixers social identities South Africa southern Africa status Studies townships University Press Western Cape white fathers white supremacist Wyk's Zambia Zimbabwe