Coloured: How Classification became Culture

Coloured as an ethnicity and racial demographic is intertwined in the creation of the South Africa we have today. Yet, coloured communities are often disdained as people with no clear heritage or culture — “not being black enough or white enough”. Coloured challenges this notion and presents a different angle to that narrative. It delves into the history of coloured people as descendants of indigenous Africans and a people whose identity was shaped by colonisation, slavery, and the racial political hierarchy it created.
Writer: Tessa Dooms, Lynsey Ebony Chutel
Met: Ruda Landman