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Title:Segregation Levels in South African Cities, 1911-1985
Author:Christopher, Anthony J.ISNI
Year:1992
Periodical:International Journal of African Historical Studies
Volume:25
Issue:3
Pages:561-582
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:segregation
apartheid
urban areas
Politics and Government
Ethnic and Race Relations
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Urbanization and Migration
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/219025
Abstract:One of the major subjects of international controversy and condemnation in the 20th century has been the imposition of a system of legalized residential segregation on a racial basis - urban apartheid - in South Africa. A multitude of segregatory laws, including the Natives (Urban Areas) Act (1923) and the Group Areas Act (1950) have shaped South African cities for over a century. This article presents some statistical basis for the changing levels of racial separation in South African towns in the present century, together with regional and intergroup variations in its intensity. Detailed enumeration tract data on the racial classification of the population are available for all the censuses since 1910. The study uses the censuses of 1911, 1921, 1936, 1951, 1960, 1970 and 1985, distinguishing between black-white, white-Asian, and coloured-white segregation. It also presents a brief overview of the various strands of segregatory legislation. The data show that levels of urban residential segregation on a racial basis in South Africa have been remarkably high throughout the century. Residential segregation levels have risen steadily, with comparatively little evidence of a marked break after the imposition of apartheid ideology in 1948. Segregation has been regionally and group selective, although the trend has been towards greater national uniformity on both counts. Ref.
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