Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: THE EMERGING RACIAL ORDER: PRE-INDUSTRIAL TIMES -- 1 Before Van Riebeeck: The Early European Legacy -- 2 Differentiation and Discrimination in Cape Dutch Society -- 3 Colonial Expansion and Racial Oppression -- PART II: THE RACIAL ORDER HARDENS: THE INDUSTRIAL ERA -- 4 Diamonds, Gold and the Colour Bar -- 5 The Segregation Era -- 6 Apartheid -- PART III: CONCLUSION -- 7 South Africa's Racial Order: Historiographical and Historical Reflections -- Bibliography -- Index