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Analysis of the treatment of colored people in a small selection of history & geography textbooks used in secondary Sch's, & in syllabuses & exam papers in those subjects for the General Certificate of Educ. The stereotypes purveyed in the textbooks were in many cases unfavorable to colored people; the subject matter of the textbooks & syllabuses was orientated towards the activities of British imperialists; it would do little to promote a sympathetic understanding of colored people or the countries from which they come. AA.

A description of an ethnically mixed group of 1.5 million colored people living in South Africa with emphasis on the effects of recent legislation. 1,300,000 live in the Cape Province, 105,000 in the Transvaal, 43,000 in Natal & 25,000 in the Orange Free State, Provinces of South Africa. 66.6% of this pop are Ur; about 50% of the latter live in the Ur complex of Cape Town. Statistical tables cover occup'al distribution & educ. There is a discussion of the Group Areas Act together with the machinery created thereunder. A negligible number of white people are forced to move into new group areas, while huge numbers of non-white people are affected. The Indust'al Conciliation Act (1957) is discussed. 9 determinations have been made, all of which are advantageous to whites & to the detriment of non-white people. AA.

As the first postapartheid television show to exclusively address "coloreds," Color TV, a variety comedy show, participates in the postcolonial objective of dismantling historical racial hierarchies in South Africa. Yet contradictory responses by "colored" viewers to the focus on working-class experiences expose fault lines in this democratizing project. Identity theories of strategic essentialism and creolization explain how working-class viewers embraced the realism of Color TV that they felt legitimized the significance of their role in the nation, while middle-class viewers perceived the images as too restrictive yet simultaneously identified proudly as "colored." The uneven reception of Color TV highlights the significance of addressing intersectional identities (of race and class) in television programming to expand inclusion of minority groups in multicultural nations.

An examination of the relationship between the changes in numbers, & areas of origin of colored immigrants to GB, & their appearance in fiction. The actual coverage is novels, plays & films about colored people living in GB, & is restricted to those published since 1945. In this period there has developed a sizeable colored minority group. It is shown that several of the important soc questions affecting the group have been ventilated in fiction. It suggests that fiction can usefully supplement more formal soc analyses. AA.