Cradock : how segregation and apartheid came to a South African town
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Cradock : how segregation and apartheid came to a South African town
UCT Press, 2019
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"This edition was originally published in 2017 by the University of Virginia Press"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Cradock is a vivid history of a South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Through the details of one emblematic community, Jeffrey Butler offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history.
Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he eschews sentimentality in favour of scholarly precision. Augmenting the obvious political narratives, Cradock examines the poor infrastructural conditions, ranging from public health to public housing, that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation but are 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 coloureds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.
Table of Contents
Editor's Preface
Author's Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Landscape, People, and Politics: Cradock in the Age of Segregation
Chapter 2: Lodgers, Layabouts, and Laborers: Access and Residence for Coloureds and Africans
Chapter 3: Race and the Politics of Liquor and Beer
Chapter 4: Water, Slops, and Night Soil: Sanitation for an Up- to-Date Town
Chapter 5: Charity and Welfare in the Age of Segregation
Chapter 6: "Is It Nothing to You?": Public Health in the Age of Segregation
Chapter 7: Improvement or Removal? Segregated Public Housing
Chapter 8: Apartheid Comes to Cradock
Conclusion: The Age of Segregation and the Age of Apartheid
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