Category: Identity
My Malay heritage denied because being coloured during apartheid was better – or something like that
The casual study of my Malay family heritage has been running up against the romantic-idealistic wall of “non-racialism,” one of those post-apartheid gods that failed. Gabieba Baderoen, a lecturer at Penn State in the USA, seems to be somewhere near the forefront of this. It makes me wonder whether Baderoen would dare tell an African-American…