Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: South Africa
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Parading Respectability: An Ethnography of the Christmas Bands movement in the Western Cape, South Africa University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May 2012 238 pages Sylvia R. Bruinders The Christmas Bands march through Adderley Street late at night during the “festive season” in Cape Town, 2001. Picture by Henry Trotter. The author releases it to the public…
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The ambivalence of authority and secret lives of tears: transracial child placements and the historical development of South African Law Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 18, Issue 2, (June 1992) pages 372-404 DOI: 10.1080/03057079208708319 Frederick Noel Zaal, Professor of Law University of Kwazulu-Natal The negative attitudes towards racially mixed familial groups which underlay many…
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Between black and white: Rethinking Coloured identity African Identities Volume 1, Issue 2 (2003) pages 253-280 DOI: 10.1080/1472584032000173139 Pal Ahluwalia, Pro Vice Chancellor of Education, Arts and Social Sciences University of South Australia Abebe Zegeye Goldsmiths College, University of London Identity who we are, where we come from, what we are is difficult to maintain…
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Not Tainted by the Past: Re-conceptualization and Politics of Coloured Identities among University Coloured Student Activists in Post-Apartheid South Africa Achieving Sustainable Development in Africa International Conference at the University of Pittsburgh 2012-03-29 through 2012-03-30 Sardana Nikolaeva School of Education University of Pittsburgh The colonial apartheid South Africa, its hierarchical racial classification and its consequences…
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Not White Enough, Not Black Enough International Herald Tribune (The Global Edition of the New York Times) 2012-02-15 Eusebius McKaiser, political Analyst Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa JOHANNESBURG – A few weeks ago, a British friend of mine served a sumptuous confession as a starter for dinner, “I only realized recently that you’re not actually…