Category: Africa

  • The Society for French Historical Studies 57th Annual Meeting Sponsored by The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina The Francis Marion Hotel Charleston, South Carolina 2011-02-11 through 2011-02-12 Includes the following sessions: 1A “Representation and Commemoration in France and Its Colonies”… Black and White: Figuring the Senegalese Signares [definition in French] Thérèse De Raedt, Associate…

  • Half-Caste (An Excerpt) Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 1, (2008) 6 pages Angela Ajayi At about the age of nineteen, a year after I arrived for college in the United States, I stopped thinking of myself as “half-caste.” The word, so loaded in its literal meaning and with its colonial roots, was…

  • ‘You Can Get Lost in Cape Town’: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zoë Wicomb’s Literary Works Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (2008) 10 pages María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Professor of English University of Córdoba In Zoë Wicomb’s novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb’s coloured condition—mixed-race identity as defined…

  • Blackness in Germany Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (2007) Tomi Adeaga Universität Siegen, Deutschland This paper analyses the situation of the Black population in Germany. It revises its historical origins, well back in history, although it focuses more on the experience of the younger generation, particularly people of mixed parentage who…

  • From Manenberg to Soweto: race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews  African Studies Volume 62, Issue 2 (December 2003) pages 171-186 DOI: 10.1080/0002018032000148740 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town The Black Consciousness poetry of James Matthews, internationally recognised Coloured writer from the Cape Flats, reflects…

  • Race Classification at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: Purposes, Sites and Practices IOLS‐Research, Dr. Shaun Ruggunan and ccrri For: Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity (ccrri) University of Kwazulu-Natal 2010-11-08 59 pages Race classification has long been a feature of South African life, in daily life and its cognitive processes, and also in formal…

  • Characterizing the Admixed African Ancestry of African Americans Genome Biology Volume 10, Issue 12 (2009) R141 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-12-r141 Fouad Zakharia Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine Analabha Basu Institute for Human Genetics University of California, San Francisco Devin Absher HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama Themistocles L. Assimes Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Stanford…

  • Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of  Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994 Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 32, Number 3 (September, 2006) pages 467-487 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town This article seeks to explain the basic impulses behind coloured exclusivity in…

  • Chinese Interracial Families Undergraduate Research Journal Indiana University, South Bend 1998 Lin Liu, Honors Freshman Research Seminar Participant In an increasingly multi-cultural America, the Chinese population as well as the number of Chinese interracial families has risen significantly among all other nationalities. Since the 1940’s, the Chinese population has soared. There have been many contributing…

  • “The devil made the mulatto”: Race, religion and respectability in a Black Atlantic, 1931-2005 University of Toronto 2007 312 pages Publication Number: AAT NR39517 ISBN: 9780494395172 Daniel R. McNeil, Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Newcastle University, United Kingdom According to The Historical Journal there has only been one scholarly study of mixed- race history.…