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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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…
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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…
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Sonic spaces: Inscribing “coloured” voices in the Karoo, South Africa University of Pennsylvania 2006 228 pages Publication Number: AAT 3246175 Marie R. Jorritsma A Dissertation in Music Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy A common stereotype of those classified…
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Mixed race vote key to Cape Town in S. Africa polls The Citizen 2011-05-16 Justine Gerardy Fruit seller Amien Cox will put his hopes on a white woman in South Africa’s local polls on Wednesday, 17 years after the fall of the racist apartheid regime that denied an all-race vote. CAPE TOWN – Fruit seller…
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Are we all ‘coloured’? News 24 (South Africa) 2011-03-09 Max Du Preez We really need to find new terminology for the different population groups in South Africa, especially now that we’re moving back into a political culture of obsession with race. Problem One: if “coloured” means people of mixed blood, then the vast majority of…
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Representation of Coloured Identity in Selected Visual Texts about Westbury, Johannesburg University of the Witwatersrand December 2006 132 pages Phyllis D. Dannhauser A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Dramatic Art). In post-apartheid South Africa, Coloured…
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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…
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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…