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The New Black Middle Class in South Africa

The New Black Middle Class in South Africa

Southall, Roger

Hardcover

Black American StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1847011438
ISBN13: 9781847011435
Publisher: James Currey
Published: May 19 2016
Pages: 317
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa's black middle class.

2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

The rise of the black middle class is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society in South Africa. Yet while it has been a major actor in the country's democratic reshaping, analysis of its role has been all but lacking. Rather, the image presented by the media has been of black diamonds, consumers of the products of advanced industrial economies, and of corrupt tenderpreneurs who use their political connections to obtain contracts. This book seeks to complicate that picture with a much-needed analysis that recounts its historical development in colonial society prior to 1994, before examining the size, shape andstructure of the new black middle class in contemporary South Africa and its relation to its counterparts in the Global South.

Roger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.

Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Jacana

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