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  • Race relations in Angola

    Race relations in Angola This is Africa: Africa for a New Generation 2012-09-26 Lula Ahrens ANGOLA, LUANDA | “Angolan women don’t like the Portuguese,” says Amelia (30, office cleaner) in a matter-of-fact manner to This is Africa. If you’re not familiar with Angola you might expect this to be the start of a rant against…

  • Afua Hirsch: Our parents left Africa – now we are coming home

    Afua Hirsch: Our parents left Africa – now we are coming home The Guardian 2012-08-25 Afua Hirsch, West Africa Correspondent As a child in London, Afua Hirsch was embarrassed by her African roots. Then, in February, she became a ‘returnee’, choosing to live in her parents’ birthplace, Ghana. Her story is echoed across the continent:…

  • Racialised ethnicities and ethnicised races: reflections on the making of South Africanism

    Racialised ethnicities and ethnicised races: reflections on the making of South Africanism African Identities Published online: 2012-06-21 DOI: 10.1080/14725843.2012.692550 Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor in the Department of Development Studies University of South Africa This article discusses how the politics of South African identity-making continues to be spoiled by racialised and ethnicised identities cascading from colonialism…

  • Parading Respectability: An Ethnography of the Christmas Bands movement in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Parading Respectability: An Ethnography of the Christmas Bands movement in the Western Cape, South Africa University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May 2012 238 pages Sylvia R. Bruinders The Christmas Bands march through Adderley Street late at night during the “festive season” in Cape Town, 2001. Picture by Henry Trotter. The author releases it to the public…

  • Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White

    Cape Verdean identity in a land of Black and White Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 3 pages 354-379 DOI: 10.1177/1468796811419599 Gene A. Fisher, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Suzanne Model, Professor Emerita of Sociology University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cape Verde is an island group off the African coast with a history of slavery.…

  • Examining the Legacy of European Names in the Elmina-Cape Coast Area of Ghana

    Examining the Legacy of European Names in the Elmina-Cape Coast Area of Ghana Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 1, Number 3 (2007) 22 pages Amma Kyerewaa Akrofi Texas Tech University Lawrence Owusu-Ansah Texas Tech University The prevalence of European family and place names in Fante areas of Ghana is one of the best known…

  • The Black Peril and Miscegenation: The Regulation of Inter-racial Sexual Relations in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1933

    The Black Peril and Miscegenation: The Regulation of Inter-racial Sexual Relations in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1933 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada September 1991 140 Pages Katherine Gombay A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree  of M.A. For over forty years, at the turn…

  • The Origins of Mixed Race Populations

    The Origins of Mixed Race Populations New African January 2005 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts While rape played a huge part in the origins of Africa and the Diaspora’s mixed race populations, it is wrong to attribute it all to rape, argues Carina Ray. In the…

  • ‘Non-racialism’ in the struggle against apartheid

    ‘Non-racialism’ in the struggle against apartheid South African Review of Sociology (originally Society in Transition) Volume 34, Issue 1 (2003) pages 13-37 DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2003.10419082 Gerhard Maré, Professor of Sociology University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban This article examines the movement of South African society from a racialised past to a racialised present. It argues that an important…

  • Finding a Match, and a Mission: Helping Blacks Survive Cancer

    Finding a Match, and a Mission: Helping Blacks Survive Cancer The New York Times 2012-05-11 Donald G. McNeil, Jr. A month after his 2009 graduation from Yale Law School, Seun Adebiyi learned he had not one but two lethal blood cancers and began an odyssey to find a bone-marrow donor. Mr. Adebiyi, 28, who came…