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Regarding Muslims : from slavery to post-apartheid /

"Regarding Muslims argues that the 350-year archive of images documenting Muslims in South Africa is central to understanding the development of concepts of race, sexuality and belonging. Baderoon explores an extensive repertoire of picturesque Muslim figures in South African popular culture, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baderoon, Gabeba
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Muslims > South Africa > History.
Sydafrika.
Muslims.
South Africa.
Muslim.
Apartheid.
Südafrika.
Muslimer.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Rustum Kozain
  • Introduction : beginnings in South Africa
  • Ambiguous visibility : Muslims and the making of visuality
  • "Kitchen language" : Muslims and the culture of food
  • "The sea inside us" : parallel journeys in the African oceans
  • "Sexual geographies of the Cape" : slavery, race and sexual violence
  • Regarding Muslims : Pagad, masked men and veiled women
  • "The trees sway north-north-east" : post-apartheid visions of Islam
  • Conclusion.