"So, what are you?": analysing erasure, shame and (mis) appropriation of coloured narratives in South Africa through social media

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dc.contributor.authorKhan, Jamil Farouk
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-05T13:18:45Z
dc.date.available2019-06-05T13:18:45Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionThis research is submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the field of Critical Diversity Studies.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study examines how Coloured people are constructing Colouredness and by implication, themselves through the Facebook web series, Coloured Mentality.Coloured identities have been a very uncomfortable part of South African race politics since colonialism and have carried a range of stereotypes and myths with them. Despite being constructed as monolithic and essential, Coloured identities have long undergone processes of creolisation under conditions of brutality to continue making and remaking themselves as political landscapes change. To explore how Colouredness is being constructed, this research employed critical discourse analysis to evaluate its relationships with history, blackness in post-Apartheid South Africa, language, culture and privilege. In particular, much of the sense making around Colouredness operates through a discourse of origin exemplified by the question: Where do we come from? Through the lens of creolisation theory, this research reveals Colouredness to be introspective in that Coloured identities are constantly negotiating possibilities for change and impossibilities of historical ways of identification that compete with each other for relevance. Coloured identities are sweeping through archives of information to inform a new way of telling their stories.Tensions and contestations within Colouredness are central to their making and remaking, as identities are made sense of through changing discourses which serve as a gateway to social changeen_ZA
dc.description.librarianMT 2019en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (v, 80 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationKhan, Jamil Farouk (2018) So, what are you?" : analysing erasure, shame and (mis)appropriation of coloured narratives in South Africa through social media, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, https://hdl.handle.net/10539/27393
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/27393
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshNationalism--Africa, Southern
dc.subject.lcshColored people (South Africa)--Race identity
dc.subject.lcshRacially mixed people--Race identity--Africa, Southern.
dc.title"So, what are you?": analysing erasure, shame and (mis) appropriation of coloured narratives in South Africa through social mediaen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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