Summary

A compelling account of everyday life for the first generation of children and adolescents growing up in post-apartheid South Africa, this pioneering study is based on rich ethnographic research conducted in the outskirts of Cape Town in the Fish Hoek Valley, an area of affluent middle-class suburbs, semi-rural smallholdings, working-class housing estates, and semi-formal settlements of African residents. Findings show that the society has changed in profound ways, but many features of the apartheid era persist--material inequalities and poverty continue to shape everyday life, race and class continue to define neighborhoods, and "integration" is a sought-after but limited experience for the young.