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The scholarship represented here is in my view excellentthe engagement with the literatures is good, and the research is extremely interesting and well constructed. Important, original, and enjoyable. (Alan Mabin, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)At Home with Apartheid is at once modest

Title	:	At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg
Author	:	Rebecca Ginsburg
Rating	:	4.90 (100 Votes)
Asin	:	0813928885
Format Type	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	248Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-8-12
Language	:	English

The scholarship represented here is in my view excellentthe engagement with the literatures is good, and the research is extremely interesting and well constructed. Important, original, and enjoyable. (Alan Mabin, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)At Home with Apartheid is at once modest in spirit and profound in effect. Rebecca Ginsburg’s meticulous scholarship and her ability to allow her informants to speak for themselves create an unforgettable portrait of apartheid from the inside, one that vividly demonstrates the role of mundane domestic spaces in shaping the moral and social experiences of the South African racial order. The issues raised here are enormously important to many South African women. This is a major landmark in the growing field of race and space studies. (Dell Upton, University of Californ

Rebecca Ginsburg is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

In addition to these oral accounts, Ginsburg draws from plans, drawings, and onsite analysis of the physical properties themselves. These seemingly mundane, private conflicts were part of larger contemporary struggles between whites and blacks over territory and power. 1960–1975) and incorporates recent scholarship on gender, the home, and family. Ginsburg gives special attention to the distinct social and racial geographies produced by the workers’ detached living quarters, designed by builders and architects as landscape complements to the main houses. Ranch houses, Italianate villas, modernist cubes, and Victorian bungalows filled Johannesburg’s suburbs. Subtle negotiations within the domestic sphere between white, mostly female, householders and their black domestic workers, also primarily women, played out over and around this space. More subtly but no less significantly than factory floors, squatter camps, prisons, and courtrooms, the homes of white South Africans were sites of important contests between white privilege and black aspiration. What distinguished these nei

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