{"id":39738,"date":"2015-01-28T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39738"},"modified":"2015-01-28T23:17:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T23:17:30","slug":"the-multiple-meanings-of-coloured-identity-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39738","title":{"rendered":"The Multiple Meanings of Coloured Identity in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/ai\/article\/view\/81223\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Multiple Meanings of Coloured Identity in South Africa<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/ai\/index\" target=\"_blank\">Africa Insight<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/ai\/issue\/view\/9439\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 42, Number 1<\/a> (2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:theodore.petrus@nmmu.ac.za\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Theodore Petrus<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer<br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology &amp; Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acls.org\/research\/fellow.aspx?cid=6f31ca5d-b0b6-df11-98f3-000c293a51f7\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wendy Isaacs-Martin<\/strong><\/a>, Political &amp; Governmental Studies Fellow<br \/>\n<em>Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In post-1994, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South African<\/a> identity has taken centre stage in debates about diversity and its impact in a multicultural society. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9281\" target=\"_blank\">coloured<\/a> people of South Africa seem to have the most at stake in such debates due to the perceived ambiguity of their and others\u2019 perceptions of their identity. This article interrogates the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/symbology\" target=\"_blank\">symbology<\/a> of colouredness by providing a symbolic interpretation of the meanings of the symbols of coloured identity. Through the engagement with relevant literature, the article seeks to identify the symbols of coloured identity and the multivocality of these symbols. Our argument is that a symbological approach to coloured identity opens up possibilities for a variety of meanings that move beyond the historically inherited stereotypical associations with the identity.<\/p>\n<p>Log-in to read the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajol.info\/index.php\/ai\/article\/view\/81223\/71420\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Multiple Meanings of Coloured Identity in South Africa Africa Insight Volume 42, Number 1 (2012) Theodore Petrus, Lecturer Department of Sociology &amp; Anthropology Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa Wendy Isaacs-Martin, Political &amp; Governmental Studies Fellow Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa In post-1994, South African identity has taken centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,12,8,394,520],"tags":[19189,19190,19191],"class_list":["post-39738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","tag-africa-insight","tag-theodore-petrus","tag-wendy-isaacs-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}