Burdened by race Coloured identities in southern Africa / [electronic resource] edited by Mohamed Adhikari. - Cape Town : UCT Press, 2009. - xxxii, 240 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781920499426 (electronic bk.)




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


South Africa--Race relations.
Africa, Southern--Race relations.


Electronic books.

DT1768.C65 / B87 2009