A list of resources that will guide you to learning and seeing more, provided by the See team, partners and contributors.
Books
A Human Being Died that Night, A story of forgiveness by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2003). David Philip Cape Town.
Amsterdam Slavery Heritage Guide by Dienke Hondius, Nancy Jouwe, Dineke Stam, Jennifer Tosch & Anniemarie de Wildt (second extended Edition 2018). LM Publishers.
Bastaards or Humans the unspoken heritage of Coloured People Volume 1 by Dr Ruben R Richards (2017). Dr Ruben R Richards.
Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez (2002). Penguin Books.Cape Town in the
Commemorating and Forgetting, Challenges for the New South Africa by Martin J Murray (2013). University of Minnesota Press.
Counter Currents – Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Town Region edited by Edgar Pieterse (2010). Jacana Media Pty (Ltd) in association with the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town in 2010 in the collection African Centre for Cities 2010 in individual contributions the contributors 2010.
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.
Disrupting Denial Analysing Narratives of Invisible / Visible Violence & Trauma by Sarah Malotane Henkeman (edited 2018). New Adventure Publishing.
Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage: Past and Present edited by Geert Oostindie (2008). KITLV Press.
Dutch New York Histories, Connecting African, Native American and Slavery Heritage by Dienke Hondius, Nancy Jouwe, Dineke Stam & Jennifer Tosch (2017). LM Publishers; Bilingual edition.
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.
Krotoa – Eva The Woman from Robben Island by Trudie Bloem (2010). NB Publishers.
Mortal Cities Forgotten Monuments by Arna Mačkić (2016). Park Books
Movement Cape Town edited by Zahira Asmal (2015). The City.
New South African Keywords edited by Nick Shepherd and Steven Robins (2008). Ohio University Press; 1st edition.
Not no place. Johannesburg. Fragments of Spaces and Times by Bettina Malcomess & Dorothee Kreutzfeldt (2013). Jacana Media; Illustrated edition.
Rape, A South African Nightmare by Pumla Dineo Gqola (2015)
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 & Gary Minkley (2017). The University of Michigan Press.
Tell Freedom edited by Nkule Mabaso & Manon Braat (2018). Kunsthal Kade.
The Afrikaners: The Biography of a People by Hermann Giliomee (2003). University of Virginia Press.
The History of Intimacy by Gabeba Baderoon (2018). Kwela.
The Hunger of Memory, The Education of Richard Rodriguez an Autobiography (1982). The Dial Press.
The Life and Work of Charles Bell by Phillida Brooke Simons (1998). Fernwood Press.
The Making of Modern South Africa by Nigel Worden (2012, 5th edition). John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
The Mirror in the Ground, archaeology, photography and the making of a disciplinary archive by Nick Shepherd (2015). Jonathan Ball Publishers.
The Rise & Demise of the Afrikaners by Hermann Giliomee Tafelberg (2019). Tafelberg.
The Truth is on the Walls by Naz Gool-Ebrahim, Donna Ruth Brenneis & ShahenaWingate-Pearse (2011). New Africa Books.
Theatrum Botanicum Edited by Uriel Orlow and Shela Sheikh (2018). Sternberg Press.
White Innocence, Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race by Gloria Wekker (2016). Duke University Press.
Words Matter: An Unfinished Guide to Word Choices in the Cultural Sector (2018). Research Center for Material Culture.
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.
Keeper of the Kumm (2011) by Sylvia Vollenhoven http://www.thejournalist.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Keeper-of-the-Kumm-Aug-2014.pdf
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).
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.
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).
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.
Museums, Memorials & Exhibitions
South Africa
Battle of Blood River
Battle of Ncome
BoKaap Museum
Constitution Hill
District 6 Museum
Freedom Park
Groot Constantia
Hector Peterse Memorial & Museum
Irma Stern Museum
King Shaka Memorial & Museum
Kramats (across Cape Town)
La Motte Museum & Heritage Buildings
Luthuli Memorial & Museum
Mandela House
Prestwich Memorial & Visitor Centre exhibition
Re(as)sisting Narratives
Robben Island and museums
Rupert Museum
Sharpeville Memorial
Simons Town museum
Slave Lodge
Solms Delta Museum
Taal Monument & Museum
Voortrekker Monument
V&A Waterfront Museums
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
Articles
Coloured People ‘reclaiming’ Afrikaans by Tsholofelo Wesi, Citizen Newspaper, 13 November 2015.
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)
Online
Camissa People, Cape Slavery & Indigene Heritage
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.
Interviews & Conversations
Heritage, Memory & Making Place: Sir David Adjaye in Conversation with Zahira Asmal, 1 September 2017.
Prestwich Memorial, Zahira Asmal interviews Nick Shepherd, on 13 November 2017 for “Visibility & Voice in the Creole City”.
Memorialising & Placemaking in our Cities, Zahira Asmal on the Refilwe Moloto Show on 31 July 2019
‘Stop Calling Us Coloured’, Karima Brown Show on 24 September 2018
Understanding coloured identity through a decolonised lens, 702 podcast with coloured mentality founders
Plays
What remains Nadia Davids
At Her Feet Nadia Davids
Social Media
@colouredmentality
@districtsixmuseum
@dutchcultureamsterdam
@gala_archive
@goethejoburg
@instituteforcreativearts_uct
@lessgoodidea
@nieuweinstituut
@nowhitesaviours
@the_blackarchives
@urbandesignsa
@stimuleringsfonds