Burdened By Race : Coloured Identities in Southern Africa

Adhikari, Mohamed

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“…The discursive construction of 'the South African nation' and the much more contested and fairly fragile 'South African national identity' which continues to be racialized in the post-apartheid era (Adhikari, 2009;Alexander, 2010;Landau, 2010), is but a short step away from perceptions of 'us' versus 'them' and the strong likelihood of xenophobic acts. Harris (2002, p. 175) presents three hypotheses for xenophobia against particular foreigners in South Africa:…”

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‘Us’ and ‘Them’: the discursive construction of ‘the Other’ in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town

Dyers¹,

Wankah²

2012

Language and Intercultural Communication

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This paper is based on research done on intercultural communication at Greenmarket Square in the heart of Cape Town, South Africa. The Square is well known as a market for informal traders (mainly from other parts of Africa), local people and tourists from all over the world. Using originally collected discursive evidence from market traders, the particular focus of this paper is to show how two groups of traders in the market Á South Africans and Africans from other countries, respectively Á discursively construct each other. By taking a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to transcribed interviews conducted with traders from both groups, we were able to extract discursive constructions of 'the Other', which revealed considerable intergroup stereotypes, intra-continental racism and xenophobia. The paper considers the causes of these discursive constructions, such as dominant ideologies, the dominant political discourses emanating from the South African state itself as argued by Neocosmos in 2008, and the spaces (real and imagined) in which these different actors find themselves.Hierdie artikel spruit uit navorsing oor interkulturele kommunikasie te Groentemarkplein in die hart van Kaapstad, Suid-Afrika. Groentemarkplein is bekend as 'n mark vir informele handelaars (hoofsaaklik uit ander dele van Afrika), plaaslike inwoners en toeriste uit baie ander lande. Deur gebruik te maak van oorspronklike diskursiewe data verkry van handelaars in die mark, kyk hierdie artikel na die wyse waarop twee groepe handelaars Á Suid-Afrikaners en Afrikane van ander lande respektiewelik Á mekaar diskursief konstrueer. Die toepassing van Kritiese Diskoers Analiese (KDA) op die getranskribeerde onderhoude gevoer met handelaars uit albei groepe het ons in staat gestel om te sien hoe 'Die Ander' diskursief gekonstrueer word, en hierdie konstruksies het aansienlike intergroep stereotiepes, interkontinentale rassisme en xenofobia ingesluit. Die artikel bedink die oorsake van hierdie diskursiewe konstruksies, soos dominante ideologieë, die dominante politieke diskoerse vanuit die Suid-Afrikaanse staat, soos geopper deur Neocosmos (2008), en die tasbare sowel as onsigbare ruimtes waarin hierdie verskillende rolspelers hulself bevind.

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‘Us’ and ‘Them’: the discursive construction of ‘the Other’ in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town

Dyers¹,

Wankah²

2012

Language and Intercultural Communication

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“…[The old N/uu (a (Kruiper 2013:57) However, a consistent element within the Kalahari People's world is the natural landscape that moulds identity as the people mould it (MacCullam 2005(MacCullam , 2015. It could thus be argued that, specifically since colonial times with the shifting categorisation of indigenous peoples and changing colonial political powers (Adhikari 2009), the landscape, including its fauna and flora, is the one enduring point of identity reference for the people north of the !Garib/Orange River. Specifically, the people identify with the river and the desert sands; the landscape, rain animals and the celestial bodies.…”

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Spirituality, shifting identities and social change: Cases from the Kalahari landscape

Lange

Dyll-Myklebust

2015

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Storytelling, art and craft can be considered aesthetic expressions of identities. Kalahari identities are not fixed, but fluid. Research with present-day Kalahari People regarding their artistic expression and places where it has been, and is still, practised highlights that these expressions are informed by spirituality. This article explores this idea via two Kalahari case studies: Water Stories recorded in the Upington, Kakamas area, as well as research on a specific rock engraving site at Biesje Poort near Kakamas. The importance of the Kalahari People’s spiritual beliefs as reflected in these case studies and its significance regarding their identities and influence on social change and/or community development projects is discussed. The article thus highlights ways in which spirituality can be considered in relation to social change projects that are characterised by partnerships between local community, non-government and tertiary education representatives and researchers and that highlight storytelling as an integral part of people’s spirituality.

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“…Mohamad Adhikari (1994Adhikari ( , 2006Adhikari ( , 2009, Nadine Dolby (2000Dolby ( , 2001, Zimitri Erasmus (2001), Paul Gilroy (2000, Al J. Venter (1974), and Janet Yarwood (2006Yarwood ( , 2011 …”

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“…It appears those Coloureds that took a "public rejectionist stance" privately acknowledged and embraced a separate Coloured identity (Adhikari, 2009). Some people went go so far as to call themselves brainos (brown people) when communing with relatives and friends.…”

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Racialism and Representation in the Rainbow Nation

Palmer

2016

Sage Open

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Despite a commitment to non-racialism in the South African Constitution and anthropology’s steadfast position that race is a social construction, race is still a highly valued ideology with real-life implications for citizens. In South Africa, racialism particularly affects heterogeneous, multigenerational, multiethnic creole people known as “Coloureds.” The larger category of Coloured is often essentialized based on its intermediary status between Black and White and its relationship to South Africa’s “mother city” (Cape Town, where the majority of Coloured people live). Through research on Coloured identity in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, I show how the nuances of personal and collective histories, spatial constraints, and education affect the identities of youth and elders differently from their Cape counterparts. By incorporating a photo-voice methodology, which I called Photo Ethnography Project (PEP), participants produced their own visual materials and challenged essentialized versions of themselves (specifically) and South Africa (in general). Through three public displays of photography and narratives, youth in three communities answered the question of what it means to be Coloured in today’s rainbow nation.

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Burdened By Race : Coloured Identities in Southern Africa

Cited by 73 publications

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‘Us’ and ‘Them’: the discursive construction of ‘the Other’ in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town

‘Us’ and ‘Them’: the discursive construction of ‘the Other’ in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town

Spirituality, shifting identities and social change: Cases from the Kalahari landscape

Racialism and Representation in the Rainbow Nation

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