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South Africa was moving into a period of questioning and uncertainty at the time of the founding of the South African Institute of Race Relations. Although party politics was concerned primarily with white people and their domestic problems and differences (colour played an insignificant role in the elections of 1933, 1938 and 1943), thoughtful observers were becoming increasingly worried about the future as they contemplated what in those days would have been called ‘the rising tide of colour’.
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Alan Paton, Hofmeyr (Oxford University Press, 1971).
T. R. H. Davenport, South Africa: A Modern History (Macmillan, 1977).
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De Villiers, R. (1979). South African Politics: The Rising Tide of Colour. In: Hellmann, E., Lever, H. (eds) Race Relations in South Africa 1929–1979. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16413-4_2
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