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Desegregation and Integration as Linked or Distinct? Evidence from a Previously ‘White’ Suburb in Post‐apartheid Cape Town

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  • CHARLOTTE L. LEMANSKI

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This article analyses whether the physical desegregation of a residential neighbourhood ultimately facilitates the social integration of its residents. Desegregation is measured quantitatively (i.e. using census data for a suburb in which no single race comprises more than 50% and at least one other racial group comprises 25%), and social integration is assessed qualitatively using indicators such as friendship, common local identity, sharing local facilities and involvement in local institutions. Essentially this research is concerned with whether labelling a suburb ‘desegregated’ is a superficial term that whilst implying racial mixing actually masks social segregation; and also whether assumptions that urban policies of desegregation ultimately facilitate social integration are accurate. This desegregation/integration nexus is explored by examining the lives of residents of a desegregated Cape Town neighbourhood. South Africa provides a timely context because the legacy of apartheid’s spatial and social design continues to dominate the urban scene despite policy efforts to promote both desegregation and integration.

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  • Charlotte L. Lemanski, 2006. "Desegregation and Integration as Linked or Distinct? Evidence from a Previously ‘White’ Suburb in Post‐apartheid Cape Town," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(3), pages 564-586, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:30:y:2006:i:3:p:564-586
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00676.x
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    1. Daniel Schensul & Patrick Heller, 2011. "Legacies, Change and Transformation in the Post‐Apartheid City: Towards an Urban Sociological Cartography," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 35(1), pages 78-109, January.
    2. Vivian Bickford-Smith, 2009. "Creating a City of the Tourist Imagination: The Case of Cape Town, `The Fairest Cape of Them All'," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 46(9), pages 1763-1785, August.
    3. Paola Jirón, 2011. "Challenges for Latin American Cities: Improving Diagnosis or the Need to Shift the Understanding Urban Inequality from Fixed Enclaves to Mobile Gradients," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2011-024, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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