{"id":9281,"date":"2010-09-30T01:20:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9281"},"modified":"2011-10-05T03:47:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T03:47:37","slug":"coloured-southern-africa-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9281","title":{"rendered":"Coloured (Southern Africa context)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a title=\"South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South African<\/a>, <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Namibia\" target=\"_blank\">Namibian<\/a>, <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zambia\" target=\"_blank\">Zambian<\/a>, <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Botswana\" target=\"_blank\">Botswana<\/a> and <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbabwean<\/a> context, the term <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coloured\" target=\"_blank\">Coloured<\/a><\/strong> (also known as <em><strong>Bruinmense<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Kleurlinge<\/strong><\/em> or <em><strong>Bruin Afrikaners<\/strong><\/em> in <a title=\"Afrikaans\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afrikaans\" target=\"_blank\">Afrikaans<\/a>) refers or referred to an <a title=\"Ethnic group\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethnic_group\" target=\"_blank\">ethnic group<\/a> of mixed-race people who possess some <a title=\"Sub-Saharan Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sub-Saharan_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">sub-Saharan African<\/a> ancestry, but not enough to be considered Black under the <a title=\"Law of South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Law_of_South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">law of South Africa<\/a>. They are mixed race and often possess substantial ancestry from <a title=\"Europe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a>, <a title=\"Indonesia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indonesia\" target=\"_blank\">Indonesia<\/a>, <a title=\"Madagascar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madagascar\" target=\"_blank\">Madagascar<\/a>, <a title=\"Malay Peninsula\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malay_Peninsula\">Malaya<\/a>, <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mozambique\" target=\"_blank\">Mozambique<\/a>, <a title=\"Mauritius\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mauritius\" target=\"_blank\">Mauritius<\/a>, <a title=\"Saint Helena\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Helena\" target=\"_blank\">Saint Helena<\/a> and <a title=\"Southern Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Africa<\/a>. Besides the extensive combining of these diverse heritages in the <a title=\"Western Cape\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Cape\" target=\"_blank\">Western Cape<\/a>\u2014in which a distinctive &#8216;Cape Coloured&#8217; and affiliated <a title=\"Cape Malay\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Malay\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Malay<\/a> culture developed\u2014in other parts of Southern Africa, their development has usually been the result of the meeting of two distinct groups. Genetic studies suggest the group has the highest levels of mixed ancestry in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coloured\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruin Afrikaners in Afrikaans) refers or referred to an ethnic group of mixed-race people who possess some sub-Saharan African ancestry, but not enough to be considered Black under the law of South Africa. They are mixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281","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=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}