Burdened By Race Coloured Identities In Southern Africa Mohamed Adhikari by Mohamed Adhikari 9781920499426, 1920499423 instant download after payment.

Since its emergence in the late 19th century, coloured identity
has been pivotal to racial thinking in southern African societies. The
nature of colouredness has always been a highly emotive and
controversial issue because it embodies many of the racial antagonisms,
ambiguities, and derogations prevalent in the subcontinent. Throughout
their existence coloured communities have had to contend with the
predicament of being marginal minorities stigmatised as the insalubrious
by-products of miscegenation. This book showcases recent innovative research and writing on
coloured identity in southern Africa. Drawing on a wide range of
disciplines and applying fresh theoretical insights, Burdened by Race
brings new levels of understanding to processes of coloured
self-identification. This collection breaks virgin ground by examining
diverse manifestations of colouredness across the region using
interlinking themes and case studies from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia
and Malawi to present analyses that both challenge and overturn much of
the conventional wisdom around the identity in the current literature.