Cradock : How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Reconsiderations in Southern African History
ISBN-10
0813940583
ISBN-13
9780813940588
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Imprint
University of Virginia Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 30th, 2017
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
489 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 16.70 x 2.10 cms
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Provides a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although the author was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community.
Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community. Augmenting the obvious political narrative, Cradock examines poor infrastructural conditions that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation but otherwise neglected in the region’s historiography. Butler shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how the lives of blacks, whites, and mixed-race coloureds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.
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