Burdened by race
Subtitle: Coloured identities in southern Africa
By: edited by Mohamed Adhikari
Publisher: UCT Press; Brand: Double Storey Publishers; Double Storey Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781919895147
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Predicaments of marginality : cultural creativity and political adaptation in southern Africa's coloured communities; title: From narratives of miscegenation to post-modernist re-imagining : towards a historiography of coloured identity in South Africa / Mohamed Adhikari; title: '... [C]onfused about being coloured' : creolisation and coloured identity in Chris van Wyk's Shirley, Goodness and Mercy / Helene Strauss; title: Trauma and memory : the impact of apartheid-era forced removals on coloured identity in Cape Town / Henry Trotter; title: Identity and forced displacement : community and colouredness in District Six / Christiaan Beyers; title: Collaboration, assimilation and contestation : emerging constructions of coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa / Michele Ruiters; title: 'We are the original inhabitants of this land' : Khoe-San identity in post-apartheid South Africa / Michael Besten; title: Race, ethnicity and the politics of positioning : the making of coloured identity in colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1980 / James Muzondidya; title: Absent white fathers : coloured identity in Zambia / Juliette Milner-Thornton; title: 'A generous dream, but difficult to realize' : the making of the Anglo-African community of Nyasaland, 1929-1940 / Christopher Lee.