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Not White Enough Not Black Enough - Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community (Paperback)
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Not White Enough Not Black Enough - Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community (Paperback)
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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 has always been a
matter of intense political and ideological contestation. Between
Black and White: 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 illustrate
how Colouredness functioned as a social identity from the time of
its emergence in the late nineteenth century through to its
adaptation to the post-apartheid environment. Adhikari demonstrates
how the interplay of marginality, racial hierarchy, assimilationist
aspirations, negative racial stereotyping, class divisions, and
ideological conflicts helped mold peoples' 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 are vital to an understanding of present-day
complexities in South Africa. 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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