How Collusion Perpetuates Racial Discrimination in Societies that Ostensibly Promote Equal OpportunityFootnote

The author is indebted to Ward E. Jones for extensive criticism of earlier drafts of this paper and for his workshop ‘Race and Racism’ at Rhodes University which inspired it. For critical remarks and important suggestions in response to earlier attempts at addressing this subject, deep thanks are due to Guglielmo Feis, George Hull, S.H. Kumalo, Roberta De Monticelli, Francesca De Vecchi, Roberto Mordacci, Margaret Gilbert, Lorenzo Passerini Glazel, John Horton, Andrei Simionescu-Panait, Silvia Tossut, Leo Townsend, Stephen P. Turner, Timothy Williamson, and Jonathan Wolff.

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