Category: Africa

  • The South African-born Chinese community is a tiny one, consisting of 10,000 to 12,000 members in a population of approximately 45 million. Throughout much of the history of this most race-conscious country, the community has been ignored or neglected, and officially classed along with Coloureds (people of mixed race) or with Indians in that particularly…

  • Woman traces her Tanzanian roots in film The Citizen Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2012-02-04 Tyrone Beason Sometimes a journey begins with a song. In the case of Seattle documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro, it was a transporting version of the classic lullaby Summertime from the African-American opera Porgy and Bess, this one sung by the Benin-born…

  • Race in South Africa: Still an issue The Economist 2012-02-04 Mixed-race citizens remain uneasy about black rule If Barack Obama lived in South Africa, he might be called a coloured. Under apartheid, the government decided to which of four racial categories a South African belonged—black, coloured, Indian/Asian or white—depending mostly on looks. The same categorisation…

  • Are there ‘Mestizos’ in the Arab World? A Comparative Survey of Classification Categories and Kinship Systems Middle Eastern Studies Volume 48, Issue 1 (January 2012) pages 125-138 DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2011.643301 Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste, Professor of Social Anthropology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Terminology devoted to miscegenation and inter-ethnic relationships is extremely problematic, and this article shows…

  • Study provides first genetic evidence of long-lived African presence within Britain University of Leicester Press Release 2007-01-24 Research reveals African origins in the UK and US New research has identified the first genetic evidence of Africans having lived amongst “indigenous” British people for centuries. Their descendants, living across the UK today, were unaware of their…

  • Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Cambridge University Press January 2002 224 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521004275 Hardback ISBN: 9780521808231 eBook ISBN: 9780511029325 DOI: 10.2277/0521004276 Edited by: David I. Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology & Italian Studies Brown University…

  • The Evolution of ‘Portuguese’ Identity: Luso-Africans on the Upper Guinea Coast from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century The Journal of African History Volume 40, Issue 2 (1999) pages 173-191 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, Portugal established a trading presence along the…

  • Mixed marriage: ‘I am coming to Senegal and I want to marry you’ Surprising Europe: Share Your Migration Experience Netherlands 2010-03-26 This website is part of the international cross-media project Surprising Europe, initiated by Ssuuna Golooba, who left Uganda in the hope of a better life. Surprising Europe consists of a documentary and a nine…

  • Multinational families, creolized practices and new identities: Euro-Senegalese cases Oxford University The Oxford Diasporas Programme 2011-01-01 through 2015-12-31 Hélène Neveu-Kringelbach, Oxford Diaspora Programme Research Fellow, African Studies Centre Junior Research Fellow St Anne’s College, University of Oxford The Oxford Diasporas Programme is a five-year research programme involving various centres at the University of Oxford and…

  • The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World Cambridge University Press March 2011 278 pages 8 b/w illus. 3 maps 228 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN:9780521192866 Peter Mark, Professor of Art History Wesleyan University, Connecticut José da Silva Horta Universidade de Lisboa This book traces the history of…