Five case studies explore the policy of social activity for blacks during the era of apartheid. They are African sport and the struggle for urban space; the politics of reading: literacy, consciousness, and the development of library services for blacks; maids and mesdames: contested objectives in social welfare programs for African women; social drinking, drunkenness, and temperance among the African middle class; and socialization, subordination, and the rise of the social work profession among blacks. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.