Category: Africa

  • Being and Belonging: Space and Identity in Cape Town Anthropology and Humanism Volume 28, Issue 1 (June 2003) pages 61–84 DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2003.28.1.61 Shannon M. Jackson, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Missouri, Kansas City The post-apartheid transition has led to changes in the shape and meaning of urban space in South Africa. Cape Town is…

  • Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition Yale University Press 2000-06-19 304 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300080131 Courtney Jung, Associate Professor of Political Science The New School Do race and ethnicity present a danger to the consolidation of effective democratic government? Can liberal constitutionalism provide a stable basis…

  • Elite (re-)constructions of coloured identities in a post-apartheid South Africa: Assimilations and bounded transgressions Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 2006 328 pages AAT 3249339 Michele René Ruiters A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School – New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for…

  • Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters Stanford University Press 2009 312 pages 11 tables, 15 figures, 16 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 9780804759984 Paper ISBN: 9780804759991 E-book ISBN: 9780804770996 Edited by: Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Asian American Studies University of California, Berkeley Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference…

  • Negotiating Coloured Identity Through Encounters with Performance University of the Western Cape November 2005 148 Pages Gino Fransman A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MA in the Faculty of Arts University of the Western Cape In this study theatre, as staged performance and as text, will be used as…

  • Griqua Identity: A Bibliography 2010 47 pages Allegra Louw, Librarian African Studies Library University of Cape Town Introduction Most scholars acknowledge that the origins of the Griqua people are rooted in the complex relationships between autochthonous KhoeSan, slaves, Africans and European settlers. Coupled with the intricacies that underpin the issue of Griqua identity—and often as…

  • Introduction: Re-imagining coloured identities in post-Apartheid South Africa Introduction to: Coloured by History, Shaped by Place: New Perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town Kwela Books 2001 320 pages ISBN-10: 0795701365 ISBN-13: 978-0795701368 Edited by: Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town Introduction by: Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of…

  • Coloured Identity: South Africa, A Select bibliography November 2010 74 pages Allegra Louw, Librarian African Studies Library University of Cape Town Introduction According to Mohamed Adhikari, a leading scholar on Coloured Identity, the concept of “Colouredness” functioned as a social identity from the time of the formation of the South African state in 1910 to…

  • Under the Moon’s Light Directory of World Cinema 2011 English Title: Under the Moon’s Light Original Title: Sous la clarté de la lune Country of Origin: Burkina Faso, France Studio: Les Films de la plaine, NDK productions Director: Apolline Traoré Producer(s): Idrissa Ouédraogo Screenplay: Apolline Traoré Cinematographer: Daniel Barrau Editor: Lucie Thierry Runtime: 90 minutes…