Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity In The South African Coloured Community - Couverture souple

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Adhikari, Mohamed

 
9780896802445: Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity In The South African Coloured Community
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ISBN 10 : 0896802442 ISBN 13 : 9780896802445
Editeur : Ohio University Press, 2005

Synopsis

The concept of Colouredness-being neither white nor black-has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation. 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. Mohamed Adhikari engages with the debates and controversies thrown up by the identity's troubled existence and challenges much of the conventional wisdom associated with it. A combination of wide-ranging thematic analyses and detailed case studies illustrates how Colouredness functioned as a social identity from the time of its emergence in the late nineteenth century through its adaptation to the postapartheid environment. Adhikari demonstrates how the interplay of marginality, racial hierarchy, assimilationist aspirations, negative racial stereotyping, class divisions, and ideological conflicts helped mold people's sense of Colouredness over the past century. Knowledge of this history, and of the social and political dynamic that informed the articulation of a separate Coloured identity, is vital to an understanding of present-day complexities in South Africa.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mohamed Adhikari lectures in the Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town. His books include "Let Us Live for Our Children" The Teachers'League of South Africa, 1913-1940, and he coedited South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid (Ohio, 2000).

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Éditeur
Ohio University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0896802442
ISBN 13 
9780896802445
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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