Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: South Africa
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Playing in the dark/ playing in the light: Coloured identity in the novels of Zoë Wicomb Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa Volume 20, Issue 1, 2008 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2008.9678286 J. U. Jacobs, Senior Professor of English and Fellow University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Zoë Wicomb’s three fictional works—You Can’t Get Lost…
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Commentary: Debating Coloured Identity in the Western Cape African Security Review Volume 14, Number 4 (2005) pages 118-119 Cheryl Hendricks, Senior Research Fellow Security Sector Governance Programme Institute of Security Studies, (Tshwane) Pretoria The nature and form of coloured identity in the Western Cape has been vociferously debated. Coloured identity became a particular concern after…
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The Origins of the Afrikaners and their Language, 1652-1720: A Study in Miscegenation and Creole Race & Class Volume 15, Number 4 (April 1974) pages 461-495 DOI: 10.1177/030639687401500404 Ken Jordaan We are a bastard people with a bastard language. Ours is a bastard nature. That is good and fine. And like all bastards, uncertain of…
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Ambiguous Belongings: Negotiating Hybridity in Cape Town, 1940s-1990s Kronos: Journal of Cape History Number 25, Pre-millennium issue (1998/1999) pages 227-238 Sean Field University of Cape Town You know you are in-between. You, you don’t fit with the Africans. You don’t fit with the coloureds. You live a normal life, but, you know you don’t fit…
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Protest and Accommodation: Ambiguities in the Racial Politics of the APO, 1909-1923 Kronos: Journal of Cape History Number 20 (November 1993) pages 92-106 Mohamed Adhikari, Associate Professor of Historical Studies University of Cape Town Historical writing on the coloured community of South Africa has tended to accept coloured identity as given and to portray it…
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Deconstructing Jaco: Genetic Heritage of an Afrikaner Annals of Human Genetics Volume 71, Issue 5 (September 2007) pages 674–688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2007.00363.x J. M. Greeff, Professor of Genetics University of Pretoria It is often assumed that Afrikaners stem from a small number of Dutch immigrants. As a result they should be genetically homogeneous, show founder effects…