Colour Confusion And Concessions

Author : Melanie Yap
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789622094246

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Colour, Confusion and Concessions by Melanie Yap Pdf

For more than 300 years Chinese have been part of the fascinating mix of people who make up the inhabitants of the southern tip of Africa. One of the smallest and most identifiable minority groups in arguably the most race-conscious country in the world, they have not up to now been the focus of serious historical attention. This detailed and descriptive chronological account aims to fill a gap in available histories by providing a comprehensive record of the Chinese in South Africa from the earliest times to the mid-1990s.

Author : Suchen Christine Lim
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1592650430

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Hua Song by Suchen Christine Lim Pdf

Photographic album of the origins and development of Chinese communities around the world.

Author : Li Anshan
Publisher : Diasporic Africa Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781937306014

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A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911 by Li Anshan Pdf

A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911 explores early Chinese knowledge of and contacts with Africa through Chinese literature on Africa and current archeological evidence, suggesting Sino-African trade existed as early as the seventh century. Li provides readers with an uncomplicated history of Chinese in Africa, examining their story from multiple perspectives, using approaches and sources found in economic history, social history, international relations, and migration in world history. While Li maintains the first group of Chinese were prisoners brought by the Dutch from Southeast Asia in the seventeenth century, the vast majority of early Chinese in Africa were “free immigrants” and contract labors that established key communities and organizations. It is these early Chinese which laid foundations for and provide important context in interpreting the recent flow of Chinese migrants and capital into various parts of Africa.The book should be of value to African and world historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and students of African and Asian studies.

Author : Keith Beavon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004491809

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Johannesburg by Keith Beavon Pdf

Until now there has been no single text that brings together the material that reveals the unfolding geography of Johannesburg, South Africa. This books describes the history of the city from its days as a mining camp to its position of premier metropolis in Africa. The present geography of Johannesburg, and the problems and dysfunctions that is hat exhibited at various stages in its history since 1886, cannot be understood without a firm grasp of what has evolved of the past 120 years.

Author : Marina Carter,James Ng Foong Kwong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004175723

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Abacus and Mah Jong by Marina Carter,James Ng Foong Kwong Pdf

This work aims to engage with the complexities surrounding evaluations of ethnic and national identity - a focus of recent interest by scholars from a range of disciplines including political science, anthropology and economics - through a case study of Chinese migration to and settlement in Mauritius. The book investigates the complex mechanisms and processes involved in the transplantation of groups of people within the colonial context, and in particular seeks to create a tableau within which the construction of a mythology of migration is set against the realities of negotiation and communication with the wider society.

Author : Thula Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197681183

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History of South Africa by Thula Simpson Pdf

South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and diplomatic reports, Thula Simpson follows the South African people through the battles, elections, repression, resistance, strikes, insurrections, massacres, crashes and epidemics that have shaped the nation. Tracking South Africa's path from colony to Union and from apartheid to democracy, Simpson documents the influence of key figures including Jan Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, P.W. Botha, Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa. He offers detailed accounts of watershed events like the 1922 Rand Revolt, the Defiance Campaign, Sharpeville, the Soweto uprising and the Marikana massacre. He sheds light on the roles of Gandhi, Churchill, Castro and Thatcher, and explores the impact of the World Wars, the armed struggle and the Border War. Simpson's history charts the post-apartheid transition and the phases of ANC rule, from Rainbow Nation to transformation; state capture to 'New Dawn'. Along the way, it reveals the divisions and solidarities of sport; the nation's economic travails; and painful pandemics, from the Spanish flu to AIDS and Covid-19.

Author : S. Auerbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230620926

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Race, Law, and "The Chinese Puzzle" in Imperial Britain by S. Auerbach Pdf

In the early twentieth century, Chinese immigration became the focal point for racial panic in Britain. Fears about its moral and economic impact - amplified by press sensationalism and lurid fictional portrayals of London's original 'Chinatown' as a den of vice and iniquity - prompted mass arrests, deportations, and mob violence. Even after the neighborhood was demolished and its inhabitants dispersed, the stereotype of the Chinese criminal mastermind and other 'yellow peril' images remained as permanent aspects of British culture. This painstakingly researched study traces the historical evolution of Chinese communities in Britain during this period, revealing their significance in the development of race as a category in British culture, law, and politics.

Author : Toyin Falola,Mohammed Bashir Salau
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110678017

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Africa in Global History by Toyin Falola,Mohammed Bashir Salau Pdf

This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews. It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history. "This book makes an important contribution to the discussion on the place of Africa in the world and of the world in Africa. An outstanding work of scholarship, it powerfully demonstrates that Africa is not marginal to global concerns. Its labor and resources have made our world, and the continent deserves our respect." – Mukhtar Umar Bunza, Professor of Social History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and Commissioner for Higher Education, Kebbi State, Nigeria "This is a deep plunge into the critical place of Africa in global history. The handbook blends a rich set of important tapestries and analysis of the conceptual framework of African diaspora histories, imperialism and globalization. By foregrounding the authentic voices of African interpreters of transnational interactions and exchanges, the Handbook demonstrates a genuine commitment to the promotion of decolonized and indigenous knowledge on African continent and its peoples." – Samuel Oloruntoba, Visiting Research Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University

Author : Wulf D. Hund,Jeremy Krikler,David R. Roediger
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643109491

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Wages of Whiteness & Racist Symbolic Capital by Wulf D. Hund,Jeremy Krikler,David R. Roediger Pdf

This book's contents include: Accounting for the Wages of Whiteness: U.S Marxism and the Critical History of Race * Racist Symbolic Capital: A Bourdieuian Approach to the Analysis of Racism * Negative Societalisation: Racism and the Constitution of Race * A Paroxysm of Whiteness: White Labor, White Nation and White Sugar in Australia * Re-thinking Race and Class in South Africa: Some Ways Forward * A White Man's Country? The Chinese Labor Controversy in the Transvaal * Racializing Transnationalism: The Ford Motor Company and White Supremacy from Detroit to South Africa (Series: Racism Analysis - Series B: Yearbooks - Vol. 1)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : KARTHALA Editions
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782811100551

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Author : Ufrieda Ho
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821444443

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Paper Sons and Daughters by Ufrieda Ho Pdf

Ufrieda Ho’s compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it, relegated to certain neighborhoods and certain jobs, living in a kind of gray zone between the blacks and the whites. As long as they adhered to these rules, they were left alone. Ho describes the separate journeys her parents took before they knew one another, each leaving China and Hong Kong around the early 1960s, arriving in South Africa as illegal immigrants. Her father eventually became a so-called “fahfee man,” running a small-time numbers game in the black townships, one of the few opportunities available to him at that time. In loving detail, Ho describes her father’s work habits: the often mysterious selection of numbers at the kitchen table, the carefully-kept account ledgers, and especially the daily drives into the townships, where he conducted business on street corners from the seat of his car. Sometimes Ufrieda accompanied him on these township visits, offering her an illuminating perspective into a stratified society. Poignantly, it was on such a visit that her father—who is very much a central figure in Ho’s memoir—met with a tragic end. In many ways, life for the Chinese in South Africa was self-contained. Working hard, minding the rules, and avoiding confrontations, they were able to follow traditional Chinese ways. But for Ufrieda, who was born in South Africa, influences from the surrounding culture crept into her life, as did a political awakening. Paper Sons and Daughters is a wonderfully told family history that will resonate with anyone having an interest in the experiences of Chinese immigrants, or perhaps any immigrants, the world over.

Author : N. Slate
Publisher : Springer
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137484116

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The Prism of Race by N. Slate Pdf

A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity. Tracing Dover's evolution through his relationships with W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson, this book tracks racial identity in the twentieth century.

Author : Tom Lodge
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847013217

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Red Road to Freedom by Tom Lodge Pdf

Definitive and gripping narrative history of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Author : Ron Nerio,Jean Halley
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823299423

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The Roads to Hillbrow by Ron Nerio,Jean Halley Pdf

This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between identity, migration, and place. Since it was founded in 1894, amidst Johannesburg’s transformation from a mining town into the largest city in southern Africa, Hillbrow has been a community of migrants. As the “city of gold” accumulated wealth on the backs of migrant laborers from southern Africa, Jewish Eastern Europeans who had fled pogroms joined other Europeans and white South Africans in this emerging suburb. After World War II, Hillbrow became a landscape of high-rises that lured western and southern Europeans seeking prosperity in South Africa’s booming economy. By the 1980s, Hillbrow housed some of the most vibrant and visible queer spaces on the continent while also attracting thousands of Indian and Black South Africans who defied apartheid laws to live near the city center. Filling the void for a book about migration within the Global South, The Roads to Hillbrow explores how one South African neighborhood transformed from a white suburb under apartheid into a “grey zone” during the 1970s and 1980s to become a “port of entry” for people from at least twenty-five African countries. The Roads to Hillbrow explores the diverse experiences of domestic and transnational migrants who have made their way to this South African community following war, economic dislocation, and the social trauma of apartheid. Authors Ron Nerio and Jean Halley weave sociology, history, memoir, and queer studies with stories drawn from more than 100 interviews. Topics cover the search for employment, options for housing, support for unaccompanied minors, possibilities for queer expression, the creation of safe parks for children, and the challenges of living without documents. Current residents of Hillbrow also discuss how they cope with inequality, xenophobia, high levels of crime, and the harsh economic impacts of COVID-19. Many of the book’s interviewees arrived in Hillbrow seeking not only to gain better futures for themselves but also to support family members in rural parts of South Africa or in their countries of origin. Some immerse themselves in justice work, while others develop LGBTQ+ support networks, join religious and community groups, or engage in artistic expression. By emphasizing the disparate voices of migrants and people who work with migrants, this book shows how the people of Hillbrow form connections and adapt to adversity.

Author : R. Bright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137316578

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Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902-10 by R. Bright Pdf

This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the reconstruction period and places localised issues within a wider historiography.