Book Reviews : Milwaukee: A Contemporary Urban Profile. By HENRY J. SCHMANDT, JOHN C. GOLDBACH, and DONALD B. VOGEL. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971, Pp. 244. $9.50.)

• Author: Lyndon R. Musolf
• DOI: 10.1177/106591297202500427
• Published date: 01 December 1972
• Date: 01 December 1972
• Subject Matter: Articles

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could include several of the so-called Bantustans or African homelands in the
Republic. Thus, only the political structure of the Republic will be drastically
changed by a process of partitioning and then subsequent federation of the eleven
territorial units into a revamped South Africa. He does consider the possibility of
partitioning Namibia into two areas, so that his scheme could include as many as
sixteen components if Namibia were to contribute two units.
Even though Mr. Marquard asserts that &dquo;it is not the purpose of this book to
provide a blueprint for [a] southern African federation ... ,&dquo; his discussion of the
prospects for, and mechanics of, such a federation are far from fuzzy. He, along with
the novelist Alan Paton (a fellow leader in the Liberal party) , has made no secret
of his revulsion for apartheid, and his proposals for federation are, to all intents and
purposes, meant to dismantle the system of apartheid from within and to replace
it with a political system which is more acceptable to both white and black, as well
as one which will bask in the warmth of international respectability. It would thus
involve a return to the rule of law in South Africa with particular emphasis upon
civil liberties and would return to the Africans the dignity that they have lost under
white conquest and rule.
Critics may find fault with Mr. Marquard and might possibly accuse him of
either being slightly patronizing toward the Africans or of diverting attention from
the need to engage in revolutionary, violent struggle to terminate white rule in
South Africa. Yet it should be required reading for African foreign ministers and
delegates to the United Nations General Assembly as well as for members of the
United States Department of State. It is, after all, one of the most thoughtful, well
reasoned, and engaging books on South and Southern Africa ever to have been pub-
lished. It could conceivably mark the beginning of a welcome era of constructive
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