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Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa’s \u00ab\u00a0black middle class\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\nProvides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa’s \u00ab\u00a0black middle class\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n
The \u00ab\u00a0rise of the black middle class\u00a0\u00bb 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 \u00ab\u00a0black diamonds\u00a0\u00bb, consumers of the products of advanced industrial economies, and of corrupt \u00ab\u00a0tenderpreneurs\u00a0\u00bb 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 and structure of the new black middle class in contemporary South Africa and its relation to its counterparts in the Global South.<\/p>\n
Table of contents:<\/span><\/p>\n Introduction: Why Study the Black Middle Class? \nRoger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.<\/p>\n For details<\/span>: https:\/\/boydellandbrewer.com\/the-new-black-middle-class-in-south-africa-hb.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa’s \u00ab\u00a0black middle class\u00a0\u00bb. The \u00ab\u00a0rise of the black middle class\u00a0\u00bb 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7621,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7619\/revisions\/7621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Middle Class: Problems and Controversies
\nThe Black Middle Class in South Africa 1910-1994
\nThe Black Middle Class in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Size, Shape and Structure
\nBlack Class Formation under the ANC
\nEducation and Black Upward Social Mobility
\nThe Black Middle Class at Work
\nThe Social World of the Black Middle Class
\nThe Black Middle Class and Democracy
\nAfterword: South Africa’s Black Middle Class in Wider Context<\/p>\n