Outcast Cape Town
- Book Review,
by John Western
Lin Menge, Rand Daily Mail
"There is much in Outcast Cape Town to make the white reader wince (black readers, one suspects, will know it all too well)."
Joseph Lelyveld, New York Times Book Review
"[Western's] central point is a large one: that apartheid is something more than an anachronistic system of segregation, that it represents the active use of state power for purposes of social dominance."
Book Description
Social geographer John Western analyzes the urban spatial planning of the 1950 Group Areas Act that achieved, in the built environment of Cape Town, the racial separatism of apartheid. His new prologue for the paperback edition assesses the changes to be expected from the new government and the obstacles to significant change.
From the Back Cover
"Straightforward, unapologetic, clearheaded, and morally alert, yet unsentimental. When the reader has finished this book he/she will know how South Africa's outcasts live." (Robert Coles)
About the Author
John Western is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University and author of A Passage to England: Barbadian Londoners Speak of Home (1992).
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