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Browsing Historical and Heritage Studies by UP Author "Harris, Karen Leigh"
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(Southern African Society of Legal Historians, 2017)
This article traces the history and dilemma of the South African born Chinese (SABCs,
also known as the indigenous Chinese) in terms of their legal dispensation. Within
months of the implementation of the Broad-Based ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(South African Society of Cultural History, 2009)
Chinese South Africans form one of the smallest culturally identifiable communities in South African society. Despite their demographic insignificance, and contrary to popular belief, they have been an integral part of ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)
This article focuses on China’s initial encounter with the African continent from the perspective of a select literature overview. It reflects on the very earliest contacts between dynastic China and ancient Africa and ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2010-11)
Commemoration has been, and still is, one of the many successful sculpting tools in the kit of identity carving. Across disciplines it is held that the most important, and one might add the most effective, strategy "as ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2018-11)
This article deliberates on the South African Department of Basic Education’s announcement in February 2018 to implement history as a compulsory school subject to the final year of secondary schooling. It outlines the ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(Routledge, 2013)
In twenty-first century South Africa, the Indian and Chinese populations are both classified as
minority groups. However, in British colonial South Africa of the nineteenth and early
twentieth century, these two communities ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh; Botha, Christoffel Rudolph
(AfricaJournals, 2023)
COVID-19 brought travel as we know it to a complete standstill. At the time it was believed that the impact of
the pandemic was unprecedented and that the projected recovery would need to be both different and
transformative. ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-11)
Sjinese arbeid het 'n integrale deel van die grootskaalse migrasie van mense tydens die internasionale era van industriële kapitalisme uitgemaak. Die ontwikkelende ekonomieë van koloniale mynbou, plantasie- en spoorwegon ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research, 2014)
The Chinese Exclusion Act passed by the Cape parliament in 1904 was one of the first pieces of legislation promulgated in the southern region of Africa where a particular ‘racial group’ was singled out, documented and ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(Open Journal Systems, 2013)
Over a century since Gandhi’s historic and personally decisive sojourn in colonial southern Africa, the vast corpus of literature in the Western world on the Mahatma has continued to expand unabated, while the “machines ...
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Van der Merwe, Ria; Harris, Karen Leigh; Strydom, Bronwyn Louise
(Unisa Press, 2013)
Recent technological changes, as well as higher expectations from the constituencies they serve, have had major impacts on the realm of museums. The virtual environment and all it has to offer, along with the perception ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(Routledge, 2019)
This article seeks to consider perceptions of the Chinese in the context of the illegal trade in molluscs (abalone), ungulates (rhino horn) and, more recently, equidae (donkey hides), which has scourged the coasts and ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2014)
This address proposes to trace the history of the two leading historical societies in
South Africa: the Historical Association of South Africa (HASA) and the South
African Historical Society (SAHS). Having been founded ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh; Van der Merwe, Ria
(Yesterday & Today, 2020)
Historical thinking skills have become the mantra of the history profession.
The aims, objectives and outcomes of history classes and courses at both
secondary and tertiary level resonate with the inclusion of the skills ...