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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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…
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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…
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Between Race; Beyond Race: The Experience of Self-Identification of Indian-White Biracial Young Adults and the factors Affecting their Choices of Identity PINS (Psychology in Society) Issue 34 (2006) pages 1-16 Dennis Francis, Dean of Education University of The Free State, South Africa This study, based on my doctoral research, is an exploration of how nine…
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The Language of Ham and the Language of Cain: “Dialect” and Linguistic Hybridity in the Work of Adam Small The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 45, Number 3 (September 2010) pages 389-408 DOI: 10.1177/0021989410377550 Nicole Devarenne, Lecturer in English University of Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom The “coloured” South African writer Adam Small has made an…
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Interracial families in South Africa: an exploratory study Rand Afrikaans University June 1994 310 pages (In English and Afrikaans) Lesley Morrall A dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the degree Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in Psychology in the Faculty of Arts at Rand Afrikaans University. Interracial marriage can be viewed as…
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Empire’s progeny: The representation of mixed race characters in twentieth century South African and Caribbean literature 2006-01-01 355 pages Publication Number: AAT 3249543 Kathleen A. Koljian University of Connecticut A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, 2006. This dissertation is an…
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“Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community” is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life.