Housing an illegitimate aristocracy : an urban profile of a coloured community in Greenwood Park from the 1950's to the 1970's

• Main Author: Francis, Lynette Crysta-Lee
• Other Authors: Pridmore, Julie, 1963-
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Coloureds (of Durban); Housing; Urban studies; Duikerfontein; Greenwood Part (GWP); Apartheid (1950's to 1970's); Aristocracy; Durban LAC; GWP Ratepayer's Association; Durban City Council; 305.8968455; Greenwood Park (South Africa) > Social conditions.; Colored people (South Africa) > Social aspects > KwaZulu-Natal > Greenwood Park.; Colored people (South Africa) > Politics and government.; Colored people (South Africa) > Economic conditions.
• Online Access: Francis, Lynette Crysta-Lee (2001) Housing an illegitimate aristocracy : an urban profile of a coloured community in Greenwood Park from the 1950's to the 1970's, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16808>; http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16808

There is no historiography on Durban coloureds . This work is an attempt to change that . This dissertation is an urban study of a small coloured community in Greenwood Park (GWP) during the apartheid era - a study in which housing is used as a vehicle to examine this community's response to their changing economic and socio-political status from the 1950's to the 1970's. Because of the absence of historical data , this study relies heavily on the contributions of other social sciences . It also uses oral data to fill the many gaps in the story of this marginal group . Chapter 4 and 5 explores housing as a complex physical and social phenomenon. Chapter 6 explores the GWP community's response to their housing environment . In this chapter, the association between housing and socio-economic status is explored . From 1950 to the l 970's, housing became the single most defining entity which kept coloureds trapped in the vortex of privilege and oppression . === History === M. A. (History)