Coloured South Africans
A Middleman Minority of Another Kind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2963323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vernon D Johnson (0000-0002-3262-4526, Western Washington University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 4-28 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13504630.2016.1175930 |
| OpenAlex | W2396658322 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 26 |
Beginning in the 1940s, a literature on middleman minorities emerged to demystify the intermediary economic niche that Jews had occupied in medieval Europe. They were viewed as ethnic entrepreneurs occupying the economic status gap. In the 1960s, scholars began to systematically apply middleman minority theory to colonial societies and to American society. South Africa also has classic middleman minorities: immigrants from South Asia. This article identifies Coloured South Africans as a middleman minority of another type: semi-privileged proletarians. It also offers a typology contrasting ethnic entrepreneurs to semi-privileged proletarians
Capitalism · Colonialism · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Expatriate · Immigration · Political science · Proletariat · Sociology · South asia · Typology · Anthropology · Appalachian Studies and Mathematics · Gender Studies · Law · Military history and social perspectives · Race, History, and American Society
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |