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The International Library of Sociology

COLOUR AND CULTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA

The International Library of Sociology

RACE, CLASS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
In 21 Volumes

I	The Changing Social Structure in England and Wales	Marsh
II	Class in American Society	Reissman
III	Class Structure in the Social Consciousness	Ossowski
IV	Co-operative Communities at Work	Infield
V	Co-operative Living in Palestine	Infield
VI	Colour and Culture in South Africa	Patterson
VII	The Deprived and the Privileged	Spinley
VIII	The First Years of Yangyi Commune	Crook
IX	The Functions of Social Conflict	Coser
X	The Home and Social Status	Chapman
XI	The Marginal Situation	Dickie-Clark
XII	Negroes in Britain	Little
XIII	Neighbours	Bracey
XIV	The People of Ship Street	Kerr
XV	Social Class, Language and Education	Lawton
XVI	Social Mobility in Britain	Glass
XVII	The Sociology of Colonies - Part One	Maunier
XVIII	The Sociology of Colonies - Part Two	Maunier
XIX	Stevenage	Orlans
XX	Studies in Class Structure	Cole
XXI	Working Class Community	Jackson

COLOUR AND CULTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA

A Study of the Status of the Cape Coloured People within the Social Structure of the Union of South Africa

by

SHEILA PATTERSON

First published in 1953 by Routledge

Reprinted in 1998 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Transferred to Digital Printing 2007

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

1953 Sheila Patterson

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Colour and Culture in South Africa
ISBN 0-415-17621-2
Class, Race and Social Structure: 21 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-17826-6
The International Library of Sociology: 274 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-17838-X

Publishers Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

It is unfortunately not possible to list individually the scores of people who have helped me so generously over the three and a half years during which this study was made and written up. I hope, however, that they will all accept this assurance of my sincere gratitude, for without their unstinted bestowing of time, interest and advice the work would never have been accomplished.

In particular I should like to express my appreciation to my husband, Bruce Tyrrell Patterson, who bore with me patiently during the whole period, Professor Raymond Firth, Professor Isaac Schapera, Dr. Kenneth Little, Dr. H. J. Simons, Professor J. S. Marais and Professor I. D. MacCrone, all of whom have read through the draft at various stages of its production, and have contributed invaluable suggestions and criticism.

SHEILA PATTERSON

Johannesburg

PART ONE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

THE APPROACH

If any body shall reprove me, and shall make it apparent unto me, that in any either opinion or action of mine I doe erre, I will most gladly retract. For it is the truth that I seeke after, by which I am sure that never any man was hurt; and as sure, that he is hurt that continueth in any error, or ignorance whatsoever.MARCUS AURELIUS.

G UNNAR Myrdal, in the preface to An American Dilemma, gives his general terms of reference in the following passage:

The study, thus conceived, should aim at determining the social, political, educational and economic status of the Negro in the United States, as well as defining opinions held by different groups of Negroes and whites as to his right status. It must, further, be concerned with both recent changes and current trends with respect to the Negros position in American society. Attention must also be given to the total American picture with particular emphasis on relations between the two races. Finally it must consider what changes are being or can be induced by education, legislation, inter-racial efforts, concerted action by Negro groups, etc.

The execution of such a work required the co-operation of a large number of specialists in various branches of the social sciences over a considerable period of time. Any single-handed attempt to follow similar terms of reference, even in the smaller South African context, must therefore seem unduly ambitious. In the absence, however, of any large body of sociological literature on, or indeed of a general sociological survey of, the Cape Coloured People, it seemed advisable to make as wide a study as possible of this group within the framework of the larger society, even at the risk of superficiality.

After a brief historical sketch of the origins and formation of the Coloured People, the study does in fact follow the general pattern outlined by Myrdal,open-class system advocated by the American ideal, a system which is practised in the North and backed by the federal authorities.

In South Africa, there is no such internal disparity amongst various sections of the white community, all of whom, unlike Americans, live in close contact with coloured groups. There is a similar democratic ideal, but it is, in practice, reserved for Europeans only.

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