Cradock : How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town

Name: Cradock
Brand: University of Virginia Press
SKU: 9780813940588
Price: 6650 KES
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ISBN: 9780813940588

by Jeffrey Butler

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Format Hardback

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

Product Classification: African history Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology African history

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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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