Representing Cape Town on the eve of apartheid
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ABSTRACTThis article attempts a detailed social portrait of Cape Town on the eve of apartheid. In the process it provides a rare cross-racial study of a twentieth-century South African city. The first section reveals a complex place already distinguished by considerable segregation and predictable social inequalities, both between and within racial and ethnic categories. Yet such findings are at odds with popular memories of a golden age – marked by tolerance, greater cohesion and security. So the second section explores and explains the differences. It finds that memories cannot simply be dismissed as myths.
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2003 ◽
Vol 8
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pp. 223-246
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2020 ◽
Vol 32
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pp. 547-568
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2018 ◽
Vol 3
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pp. 275-292
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