Coloured identities in southern Africa Adhikari, Mohamed. ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. sa Cape Town UCT Press 2009 monographic eng

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xxxii, 240 p. : ill. 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. edited by Mohamed Adhikari. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. fs----- Colored people (South Africa) Race identity Racially mixed people Race identity Africa, Southern South Africa Race relations Africa, Southern Race relations DT1768.C65 B87 2009eb http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10593044 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10593044 CaPaEBR 100122 ebr10593044