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February 11, 2010
Growing up in Hong Kong, Fiona Hartley (not her real name) had to walk up a steep hill every morning. By the time this Eurasian teenager got to school, she would be sweaty and flushed, and her wiry brown hair would be a complete mess. She used to look in envy at the Chinese girls [...]
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February 9, 2010
A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen
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February 4, 2010
A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen
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February 2, 2010
How do you tell whether a light-skinned baby is black or coloured? You leave him on a table and see if he turns blue. No, this is not a bad joke it is just one of the barbaric methods used to classify South African citizens during the apartheid years. This, and other equally unpalatable [...]
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January 28, 2010
.History of Slavery in South Africa Documentary
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January 26, 2010
A documentary by Tana Baru Productions, and Directed by Rhomeez Petersen
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January 14, 2010
‘I won’t victimise myself…it’s just part of growing up.’
US singer Amerie recently spoke to Sixshot.com about her mixed racial background. Amerie was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts to an African-American father and a Korean mother. Her father was in the United States military and this enabled Amerie to travel to and live in many different places, [...]
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January 12, 2010
Britain has one of the fastest-growing mixed-race populations – but many people are still hostile towards interracial couples. We asked some of them how their lives have been affected. During the 1991 Gulf war, Richard Littlejohn wrote in the Sun that British women married to Iraqis ’should be left to rot in their adopted country, with [...]
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January 6, 2010
The various Coloured communities in southern Africa developed out by events of the Dutch colonization of South Africa. In 1652 a small company of employees of the Dutch East India Company were settled on the southern tip of Africa in order to establish a refreshment station for the Company’s ships en route to the Far [...]
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December 30, 2009
MYTH: Egyptians were white
This is the longest myth ever in existence, which is pedaled as true scholarship and truth. Yet it is an outright myth, deliberately created from 1830 onwards, to explain away Egyptian civilization. During the 1800’s there was all kinds of pseudo-sciences floating around about the genetical and inherent inferiority of peoples of [...]