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GANGS, POLITICS AND DIGNITY IN CAPE TOWN Steffen Jensen (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008), 240 pages.
Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town is an ethnographic study of Coloured residents in the Cape Flats of South Africa. Steffen Jensen refers to the Coloured populace as it was defined in the 1930s by South Africa's Wilcocks Commission, "as a residual group, including 'all persons not of unmixed European descent, or of unmixed Bantu descent, or of unmixed Asian descent.'"
The author...