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Title: | 'Not Black Enough': Changing Expressions of Coloured Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
Author: | Adhikari, Mohamed |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
Issue: | 51 |
Pages: | 167-178 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | Coloureds ethnicity Ethnic and Race Relations History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470409464835 |
Abstract: | This paper explains why Coloured identity has experienced rapid change in the post-apartheid environment and explores new social and political dynamics informing these shifts. The precipitate change in the political and moral climate in which Colouredness has to operate in the new South Africa has been deeply disconcerting to a large part of its political, communal and intellectual leadership which has been wrestling with the unenviable problem of reorientating a profoundly racialized identity which, in addition, is compromised by a widely perceived complicity in maintaining white supremacy. The new order, with its emphasis on multiculturalism, nationbuilding and the egalitarian values enshrined in its proudly progressive constitution, has invalidated what had all along been the principal strategy behind the espousal of a separate Coloured identity in white supremacist South Africa. With its racially-based claim to relative privilege no longer acceptable, there has been an urgent need by politicians, community leaders and organic intellectuals to find a new basis for the espousal of the identity and new strategies for fostering Coloured group interests. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |