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  • Between Black and White: An Exploratory Investigation of Biracialism in the United States and South Africa

    Between Black and White: An Exploratory Investigation of Biracialism in the United States and South Africa McNair Scholars Journal Volume 11, Issue 1 (2007) Article 7 Whitney Laster Grand Valley State University The United States and South Africa both endured periods of intense racism produced from rigid social hierarchies. While European populations controlled these institutions,…

  • Peeping Through the Reeds: A story about living in apartheid South Africa

    Peeping Through the Reeds: A story about living in apartheid South Africa AuthorHouse August 2010 284 pages 6×9 ISBN: 9781452028774 Musuva (June C. Hutchison) Peeping Through the Reedsis a fictionalised story about growing up “Coloured” under apartheid in South Africa. Based on real events, the story is told through the frank and insider voice of…

  • Creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and degeneracy: A critique of selected histories of Sierra Leone and South Africa

    Creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and degeneracy: A critique of selected histories of Sierra Leone and South Africa Current Sociology Volume 59, Number 5 (September 2011) pages 635-654 DOI: 10.1177/0011392111408678 Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town This work examines the nexus between creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and discourses of degeneration. It focuses on two…

  • Black Skin, White Skulls: The Nineteenth Century Debate over the Racial Identity of the Ancient Egyptians

    Black Skin, White Skulls: The Nineteenth Century Debate over the Racial Identity of the Ancient Egyptians Parallax Volume 13, Number 2 (2007) pages 6-20 DOI: 10.1080/13534640701267123 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Not so long ago, the question ol the racial identity of the Ancient Egyptians passed beyond the narrow…

  • Mixed Race Season

    Mixed Race Season BBC Press Office BBC Two Summer & Autumn 2011 Diverse, stimulating and rewarding television on BBC Two 2011-06-22 Mixed-race Britain is put under the spotlight this autumn in a collection of revealing new programmes. With a mix of drama and documentaries, the season provides a window into the varied lives of mixed-race…

  • Craniometric Study of the Cape Coloured Population

    Craniometric Study of the Cape Coloured Population Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa Volume 33, Issue 1 (1951) pages 29-51 DOI: 10.1080/00359195109519876 J. A. Keena Department of Anatomy University of Cape Town (With Plate XI and three Text-figures.) (Read November 16, 1949.) The Cape Coloured people inhabit Cape Town, the Cape Peninsula and…

  • The Arabs of Africa

    The Arabs of Africa Patterns of Prejudice Volume 6, Issue 1 (1972) pages 1-9 DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.1972.9969036 Ali Mazruia, Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities State University of New York, Binghamton The combination of acculturation and inter-mating between races might be called a process of biocultural assimilation Some degree of integration between groups is achieved by…

  • South Africa: Is the Sun Setting on Afrikaners?

    South Africa: Is the Sun Setting on Afrikaners? International Business Times 2011-07-27 Palash R. Ghosh The recent death of Magnus Malan, the feared former general and defense minister of South Africa, might have ended an era in a country once defined by strict racial separation. Malan, who ferociously fought to maintain racial apartheid until the…

  • Identity Politics: The Ambiguity of Race and the “End of Racism”

    Identity Politics: The Ambiguity of Race and the “End of Racism” The Atlanta Post 2011-07-11 Ezinne Adibe Professor and author Kwasi Konadu discusses identity politics and what it means to be African One hundred years from now what weight will race and/or ethnicity have on our understanding of identity?  Are we moving towards a society…

  • Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

    Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius Duke University Press 2004 360 pages 5 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-3402-6 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3399-9 Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History Cambridge University The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists…