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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Coloured identity"”.
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Utopia in performance: re-imagining a coloured identity narrative
In this study I explore how coloured identity has been historically produced as a monolithic racial category, focussing on how performance offers critically generative ways of addressing and contesting the politics and meanings of colouredness in post-apartheid South Africa. This study explores the …
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The notion of reconciliation as part of the emerging coloured identity
… striving for unity and reconciliation, black and coloured Christians, however, were unanimous in their rejection of cheap reconciliation without justice. Since this country's first democratic elections in April 1994, South Africa has had to face many new challenges to the democratic process. One …
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Questioning 'colourdness,: Tracing the identity development of people who chose to reject 'coloured identity'
This research project explores the identity development of thirteen people, all of whom reside in Cape Town, and all of whom rejected 'coloured' identity. It investigates ways in which the participants used different ideologies to repudiate their 'legal identity' - 'coloured identity'. The thesis …
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Os percelie die valley, We rule this place : coloured identity and religious diversity in Cape Town
The significance of religoin within the Cape-coloured community in the twentieth-century forms the primary subject of this thesis. It analyses the relationship between the practice of coloured identity and notions of the city, as well as the city's bearing on the expression of coloured identity.
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Hope, fear, shame, frustration : continuity and change in the expression of coloured identity in white supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994
This thesis examines the ways in which Coloured identity manifested itself in South African society from the time the South African state was formed in 1910 till the institution of democratic rule in 1994. The central argument of the dissertation is that Coloured identity is better understood, not …
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Internalised shame and racialised identity in South Africa, with specific reference to 'coloured' identity : a quantitative study at two Western Cape universities
Drawing on Social Identity Theory, with particular reference to racialisation in South Africa, this study looked at the significance of shame for a group of people who identify with the racially ascribed group of 'coloured'. It was also the purpose of the study to determine whether there were …
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Negotiating the ambivalent construction of 'coloured' identity, in relation to the work of Malika Ndlovu and the Cape Town-based Black Women's Writers Collective, WEAVE
… on the work of writers for whom the nature of 'Coloured' identity is a problematic issue. ('Coloured' is the Apartheid term used to describe people of mixed descent living in South Africa). I base my analysis of their writings around 'Coloured' identity in postcolonial theory, in order to …
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Sitting on the fence or walking a tightrope? : a political history of the coloured community in Zimbabwe, 1945-1980
This thesis examines the political history of the Coloured community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalised in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. The specific focus of the thesis is on the evolution of …
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“Coloured” Pasts in Post-Apartheid South African Fiction: Slavery, Gender, and Anachronism
… novels concerned with the history of slavery, “coloured” identity and the politics of gender and sexuality in post-apartheid South Africa: Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit, Anne Landsman’s The Devil’s Chimney, Rayda Jacobs’s The Slave Book, and Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light. Each writer’s …
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Skinner stories : a community's perspective on the representation of coloured people today
This work investigates the meanings coloured people derive from media representations of' colouredness'. To position coloured identity in post apartheid South Africa, it pays close attention to the ways apartheid stereotypes play themselves out in particularly television media today. It looks at …
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A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution
… around the relationship of sport and politics, Coloured identity and the meaning of the anti-Apartheid movement.
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At the crossroads of the identity (re)construction process: an analysis of 'fateful moments' in the lives of Coloured students within an equity development programme at UCT
… has made valuable contributions in the area of identity theory. Recent research into the identity transformation process has seen much emphasis being placed on developing specific conceptual tools to unpack the variable nature of these transformations. These conceptual tools have been extremely …
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"Passing women": gender and hybridity in the fiction of three female South African authors
… study is to shed light on the representation of coloured women with reference to racial passing, using fictive characters depicted in Sarah Gertrude Millin�s (1924) God's Stepchildren, Zo� Wicomb's (2006) Playing in the Light, and Pat Stamat�los's (2005) Kroes, as presented by these three …
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Public sector trade union response to change in South Africa: a case study of the South African municipal workers union (SAMWU) in the Western Cape (1992-97)
… up with issues of race - in particular their 'coloured' identity. The thesis conceptualised apartheid and race as a function of capitalism. It concluded that the continuing use made of the 'coloured' identity in the region, to disguise economic inequality, had the potential to negate against …
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Teachers' League of South Africa 1913-40
… Teachers' League of South Africa, a specifically coloured teachers' association, during its conservative phase from 1913 to 1940, this thesis in addition attempts to investigate the nature and development of this organization in the context of the wider social dynamic of which it was both part and …
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Exploring the positioning of multilingual Kaaps and Cape Flats English-speaking university students' linguistic choices and identities
… between colonialism, language, and racial identity, few have specifically addressed Afrikaaps and CFE. This research aims to contribute towards filling that gap. I utilised critical sociolinguistics, which frames language as a social practice, as the foundation of my research. This approach …
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Colour, citizenship and constitutionalism : an oral history of political identity among middle-class coloured people with special reference to the formation of the Coloured Advisory Council in 1943 and the removal of the male franchise in 1956
This thesis explores the political identity of middle-class coloured people in metropolitan Cape Town focusing particularly on the period extending from the formation of the Coloured Advisory Council in 1943 to the removal of the qualified coloured male franchise in 1956. The findings of the thesis …
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The Goffal Speaks: Coloured Ideology and the Perpetuation of a Category in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
Significant changes for the Coloured community have occurred and continue to occur as a result of an ever-changing political landscape in Zimbabwe. These changes reveal a group consciousness or ideology that often translates into daily practices of methods of inclusion and exclusion based on ethnic …