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Books
Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez (2002). Penguin Books.
De Afkomst Der Boeren1902 by Colenbrander, H. (2010). Kessinger Publishing.
Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City edited by Noeleen Murray, Nick Shepherd & Martin Hall (2007). Routledge.
Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage: Past and Present edited by Geert Oostindie (2008). KITLV Press.
Good Hope: South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600 edited by Martine Gosselink, Maria Holtrop, Robert Ross (2017). Rijks Museum | Vantilt.
I Write What I like by Steve Biko (2004). Picador Africa.
In the Balance: South African debate Reconciliation edited by Fanie du Toit & Erik Doxtader (2010). Jacana Media.
Movement Cape Town edited by Zahira Asmal (2015). The City.
Regarding Muslims from Slavery to Post-Apartheid by Gabeba Baderoon (2014). Wits Press.
Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts by Leslie Witz, Ciraj Rassool and Gary Minkley (2017). The University of Michigan Press.
Tell Freedom edited by Nkule Mabaso & Manon Braat (2018). Kunsthal Kade.
The Truth is on the Walls by Naz Gool-Ebrahim, Donna Ruth Brenneis & Shahena Wingate-Pearse (2011). New Africa Books.
The Afrikaners: The Biography of a People by Hermann Giliomee (2003). University of Virginia Press.
Words Matter: An Unfinished Guide to Word Choices in the Cultural Sector (2018). Research Center for Material Culture.
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Journals &
Academic Papers
Cape Slaves in the Paper Empire of the VOC by Nigel Worden. Kronos, no. 40 (2014): 23-44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24341933.
Editorial: Genealogies of Space and Identity in Cape Town by Andrew Bank and Gary Minkley. Kronos, no. 25 (1998): 4-16. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41056425.
From the Madrasah to the Museum: The Social Life of the “Kietaabs” of Cape Town by Saarah Jappie. History in Africa 38 (2011): 369-99. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41474556.
Indian Ocean Slaves in Cape Town, 1695–1807 by Nigel Worden. Journal of Southern African Studies, 42:3, (2016) 389–408.
Rape, Race, and Colonial Culture: The Sexual Politics of Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, South Africa by Pamela Scully. The American
Historical Review 100, no. 2 (1995): 335-59. doi:10.2307/2169002.
Renaissance and Revenants in an Emerging Global City. Discourses of Heritage and Urban Design in Cape Town’s District One and District Six 2002–2014 by Christian Ernsten. University of Cape Town (2017).
Uncovering the Symbiotic Intersection Between Museums and Construction of Race Ideology in South Africa. PhD Thesis Abstract by Wandile Kasibe. University of Cape Town (2016).
Tender Ties: Women and the slave household, 1652–1834 by Robert Shell. Collected Seminar Papers Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 42, (1992)1–33.
The Changing Politics of Slave Heritage in the Western Cape, South Africa by Nigel Worden. The Journal of African History 50, no. 1 (2009): 23-40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40206696.
Urban imaginaries and memories of violence. Cape Town’s Prestwich Street by Nick Shepherd and Christian Ernsten In Volume 11: 138–141 (2007).
Whatever Became of Cape Slavery in Western Cape Museums by Carohn Cornell. Kronos, no. 25 (1998): 259-79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41056437
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Museums, Memorials
& Exhibitions
Cape Town
- BoKaap Museum
- District 6 Museum
- Groot Constantia
- Irma Stern Museum
- Prestwich Memorial & Visitor Centre exhibition
- Robben Island
- Rupert Museum
- Slave Lodge
- Solms Delta
International
- Amsterdam Museum
- Check Point Charlie, Berlin
- Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds, Nuremberg
- Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, Munich
- Hermitage, Amsterdam
- Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
- Jewish Museum, Berlin
- Mauritshuis, The Hague
- Maritime Museum, Rotterdam
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
- Memorium Nuremberg Trials
- Nationaal Archief, The Hague
- National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.
- Rijks Museum, Amsterdam
- Royal Delft 1653, Delft
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- The Berlin Wall Memorial, Berlin
- The Black Archives, Amsterdam
- Het Scheepvaart Museum, Amsterdam
- Topography of Terror, Berlin
- Tropen Museum, Amsterdam
- Wereld Museum, Rotterdam
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Articles
Coloured People ‘reclaiming’ Afrikaans by Tsholofelo Wesi, Citizen Newspaper, 13 November 2015.
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Film
Afrikaaps, the documentary by Dylan Valley (Plexus Films, 2010)
Not In My Neighbourhood by Kurt Orderson (Azania Rizing Productions, 2017)
Drie Vrouwen by Ida Does (Ida Does Productions, 2018)
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Online
Gondwana Collection (2017) Breyten Breytenbach: In the Spotlight Commenting on the Afrikaans Language
South African History Online (1990) Indian Slaves in South Africa: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African Relations by E. S. Reddy
South African History Online (2004) Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism. Chapter 3 – Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
South African History Online (2011) Colonial History of Cape Town.
South African History Online (2015) History of Slavery and early colonization in Cape Town
South African History Online (2015) Simon van der Stel
Statistics South Africa (2011) City of Cape Town
The New York Times (29 Aug 2004). African American Becomes a Term for Debate by Rachel L. Swarns.
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Interviews & Conversations
Prestwich Memorial, Zahira Asmal interviews Nick Shepherd, on 13 November 2017 for “Visibility & Voice in the Creole City”.
Heritage, Memory & Making Place: Sir David Adjaye in Conversation with Zahira Asmal, 1 September 2017.
Top Image: A page from the Arabic-Afrikaans letter found in the private library of Imam Abdurahman Bassier, photograph by Saarah Jappie