Cradock : How Segregation And Apartheid Came To A South African Town

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 regions 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. Features Model 9781775822882 Product/Packaging Information Product Weight 0.5kg Product Dimensions 210mm(L) x 148mm(W) x 15mm(H) Shipping Weight 0.5kg Shipping Dimensions 210mm(L) x 148mm(W) x 15mm(H)