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| Title: | Ethnic pride and racial prejudice in Victorian Cape Town: group identity and social practice, 1875-1902 |
| Author: | Bickford-Smith, Vivian |
| Year: | 1995 |
| Issue: | 81 |
| Pages: | 281 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X) |
| City of publisher: | Cambridge |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 0521472032 |
| Geographic terms: | South Africa The Cape United Kingdom |
| Subjects: | racism colonialism urban history |
| Abstract: | Nineteenth-century Cape Town, the capital of the British Cape Colony, was conventionally regarded as a liberal oasis in an otherwise racist South Africa. Longstanding British influence was thought to mitigate the racism of the Dutch settlers. The author interweaves political, economic and social analysis to show that members of the English merchant class, far from being liberal, were generally as racist as Afrikaner farmers. Theirs was, however, a peculiarly English discourse of race, mobilized around a 'Clean Party' obsessed with sanitation and the dangers posed by 'un-English' Capetonians in a period of rapid urbanization brought about by the discovery of diamonds and gold in the interior. |
