Collective Rural Identity in Steinkopf, a Communal Coloured Reserve, c.1926-1996

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Title:	Collective Rural Identity in Steinkopf, a Communal Coloured Reserve, c.1926-1996
Author:	Oakley, Robin
Year:	2006
Periodical:	Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:	32
Issue:	3
Period:	September
Pages:	489-503
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	Coloureds segregation apartheid group identity social history History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070600829591
Abstract:	Steinkopf, a former Coloured reserve located in Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province, South Africa, provides an opportunity to explore the resiliency of collective identity across twentieth-century industrial capitalism and the various externally imposed borders, classifications and policies designed to fracture that identity. Ethnographic data reinforce the author's contention that the notion of local citizenship manifested through communal land tenure strengthened Steinkopf's capacity to problematise ethno-racial classifications through segregation and apartheid. While those who lived through these eras, and who are now elderly, discursively concede a degree of individual and collective hybridity, this seeming fragmentation does not negate a strong collective consciousness, enabling them to mobilize and protect local interests. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]