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Book Review
The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829-1856
2015
Overview
Like all good micro-histories, Ross's work places this small border settlement within a larger context, during a period that was, Ross argues, \"both metaphorically and literally at the center of much of what was most significant in the creation of colonial South Africa\" (p. 4). Because of the availability of a rare plethora of archival source material on the Kat River settlers, who enjoyed spectacular and nearly unrivalled agricultural success, Ross is able to \"investigate the borders between the major socioeconomic and racial blocks, so as to see how the lines of division were created and controlled\" (p. 8). [...]Ross argues, it was the settlement's unexpected success that brought it down, for it challenged the racist colonial perspective of both Khoekhoe proponents and opponents alike who believed that non-white peoples were not capable of producing a viable, prosperous community on their own.
