Myths and Attitudes: An Inside Look at the Coloured People [Inscribed]

[Cape Town]: Tafelberg, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Black paper-covered boards in orange dust jacket; cartographic endpapers; [viii],116pp; ad to rear jacket panel. Inscribed by the author on title page, 1981, to J. Wayne Fredericks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1961-67. Lightly rubbed at extremities, else Fine. Jacket rubbed at edges, small perforation and tear to center of rear panel, else Very Good.

During apartheid, "coloured" was a legally defined racial classification, codified in 1950. It was the category used for everyone who was not designated white or Black, including people who were mixed-race, and people descended from East Asians brought to South Africa as slaves and indentured workers. Richard E. van der Ross, who was categorized as Coloured under apartheid, was a political organizer in the 1960s, the first president of the Labour Party of South Africa, and eventually the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape. [62767].