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Interracial marriages in twentieth-century Cape Town: evidence from Anglican marriage records
The History of the Family ( IF 1.190 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-17 , DOI: 10.1080/1081602x.2019.1631873
Johan Fourie 1 , Kris Inwood 2
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ABSTRACT

One of the most controversial laws promulgated by the National Party as part of South Africa’s mid-twentieth century apartheid policies was the 1949 Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act. This Act stipulated that ‘a marriage between a European and non-European may not be solemnized, and any such marriage solemnized in contravention of the provisions of this section shall be void and of null effect’. We use more than 23,000 newly-transcribed Anglican marriage records of Cape Town for the period 1911 to 1964 to show that the Act had mostly followed, and not led, changing interracial marriage practices. In the years before the Act’s promulgation, interracial marriages were rare and on the decline, despite the fact that apartheid-era policies had not yet been institutionalized. Our results suggests that marriage behaviour in Cape Town, and probably in South Africa more generally, was shaped by racial stratification early in the twentieth century. The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, although devastating to those affected, was a correlate to rather than the cause of changing marriage behaviour.



中文翻译:

20世纪开普敦的异族婚姻:来自英国国教的婚姻记录的证据

摘要

国民党作为二十世纪中叶种族隔离政策的一部分颁布的最具争议的法律之一是1949年的《禁止混合婚姻法》。该法令规定:“欧洲人与非欧洲人之间的婚姻不能被庄严,并且任何违反本节规定的庄严婚姻都将无效,并且无效。” 我们使用1911年至1964年之间开普敦的23,000多个新记录的英国国教婚姻记录,以表明该法案在很大程度上遵循了而不是改变了异族婚姻的习惯。在该法颁布之前的几年中,尽管种族隔离时代的政策尚未制度化,但异族通婚是罕见的,而且还在下降。我们的结果表明,在开普敦,大概在南非,是由20世纪初的种族分层形成的。1949年的《禁止混合婚姻法》虽然对受影响的人造成了破坏,但它与改变婚姻行为有关,而不是其成因。

更新日期:2019-07-17
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