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oapen-20.500.12657-314432023-07-11T13:07:31Z Burdened By Race Adhikari, Mohamed History coloured identity marginal minorities coloured self-identification southern Africa Apartheid Black people Cape Town Creole language Khoisan South Africa bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies::JFSL1 Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies Since its emergence in the late 19th century, coloured identity has been pivotal to racial thinking in southern Africa. The nature of colouredness is a highly emotive and controversial issue as it embodies many of the racial antagonisms, ambiguities and derogations prevalent in the subcontinent. Throughout their existence coloured communities have had to contend with being marginal minorities stigmatised as the insalubrious by-products of miscegenation. Burdened By Race showcases recent innovative research and writing on coloured identity in southern Africa. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and applying fresh theoretical insights, the book brings new levels of understanding to processes of coloured self-identification. It examines diverse manifestations of colouredness, using interlinking themes and case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi to present analyses that challenge and overturn much of the conventional wisdom around identity in the current literature. 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-01-27 14:14:25 2020-04-01T13:35:30Z 2020-04-01T13:35:30Z 2009 book 628130 OCN: 811407409 9781920499426 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31443 eng application/pdf n/a 628130.pdf UCT Press 10.26530/oapen_628130 100292 10.26530/oapen_628130 244c00cc-5564-4792-89c6-11fed3a3ad6f b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781920499426 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Cape Town, South Africa 100292 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Since its emergence in the late 19th century, coloured identity has been pivotal to racial thinking in southern Africa. The nature of colouredness is a highly emotive and controversial issue as it embodies many of the racial antagonisms, ambiguities and derogations prevalent in the subcontinent. Throughout their existence coloured communities have had to contend with being marginal minorities stigmatised as the insalubrious by-products of miscegenation. Burdened By Race showcases recent innovative research and writing on coloured identity in southern Africa. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines and applying fresh theoretical insights, the book brings new levels of understanding to processes of coloured self-identification. It examines diverse manifestations of colouredness, using interlinking themes and case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi to present analyses that challenge and overturn much of the conventional wisdom around identity in the current literature.
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