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Identity Resilience Within the Coloured South African Community in Canada; Exploring the Impact of Settler Colonialism, Racialization and Diasporic Movement on Racial/Self Identification

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dc.contributor.advisorGiles, Wenona
dc.contributor.advisorMurdocca, Carmela
dc.contributor.advisorYon, Daniel
dc.creatorVon Langsdorff, Gillian Yvonne
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-05T14:58:26Z
dc.date.available2019-03-05T14:58:26Z
dc.date.copyright2018-11-28
dc.date.issued2019-03-05
dc.date.updated2019-03-05T14:58:26Z
dc.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an interdisciplinary examination of the resilience of Coloured South African racial identity/self identification. I assert that the dark legacy of settler colonialism, and its concomitant racialization and diasporic movement resulted in the persistence of many identity/traits within immigrant Coloureds living in the Toronto area, long after their departure from South Africa. Coloured identity remains complex and often contradictory while continuing to impact the lives of these immigrants. Existing research and my personal knowledge supplements the life narratives of three Coloured South African interlocutors who emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s, during the tightening of apartheid legislation and heightened violence against non-whites. Only scanty information exists on this sizeable exodus. This study additionally provides a broader understanding of the persistence of settler colonialism, the impact of racialization and diasporic movement, expands existing research on Coloured South Africans and the multifaceted and problematic position of being interracial, during apartheid.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35903
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSouth African studies
dc.subject.keywordsapartheid
dc.subject.keywordsSouth African history
dc.subject.keywordsColoureds
dc.subject.keywordsColoured identity
dc.subject.keywordssettler colonialism
dc.subject.keywordsdiaspora
dc.subject.keywordsracialization
dc.subject.keywordsracial oppression
dc.subject.keywordsracial categorisation
dc.subject.keywordsAncestral silencing
dc.subject.keywordsracial diversity
dc.subject.keywordsracialized immigration
dc.subject.keywordssettlement
dc.subject.keywordsimmigration and ongoing colonialism
dc.titleIdentity Resilience Within the Coloured South African Community in Canada; Exploring the Impact of Settler Colonialism, Racialization and Diasporic Movement on Racial/Self Identification
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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