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Title:Race, Power and Urban Control: Johannesburg's Inner City Slum-Yards, 1910-1923
Author:Parnell, SusanISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:29
Issue:3
Period:September
Pages:615-637
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:segregation
informal settlements
urban planning
Urbanization and Migration
History and Exploration
Ethnic and Race Relations
Law, Human Rights and Violence
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3557434
Abstract:From Johannesburg's origins as a mining camp, the principal and general white discourse of urban segregation for Africans was not questioned. However, no blueprint existed for how to enforce urban segregation prior to the Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923. Contestation over the details of how to manage African shelter in Johannesburg around the time of South Africa's Union reveals that, despite powerful segregationist legislation and political consensus among the ruling white population, municipal strategies for managing African settlement were more contingent. The argument presented here is that the Council's shift in policy, from initially condoning and facilitating inner city slum yards to the subsequent vilification of the 'African slum problem', reflects in part a change in the balance of power between manufacturing and mining interests, and in part the reassertion of a popular white discourse connecting 'race' with disease, criminality and drunkenness, propagated in particular by working class ratepayers. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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