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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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…
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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…
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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…
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The development of memory for own- and other-race faces Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 98, Issue 4 (December 2007) pages 233–242 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.004 Gail S. Goodman Department of Psychology University of California, Davis University of Oslo Liat Sayfan Department of Psychology University of California, Davis Jennifer S. Lee Department of Psychology Cabrillo College, Aptos, California…
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‘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…
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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…