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STATE PARTITION HAS BEEN A COMMON OCCURRENCE IN THE 20TH CENTURY AND THERE ARE FEW EXAMPLES OF DELIBERATE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED PARTITION PLANS WHICH HAVE FAILED. IN SOUTH AFRICA THE WHITE MINORITY SOUGHT TO RETAIN POLITICAL POWER IN THE FACE OF MAJORITY AFRICAN DEMANDS FOR EQUALITY, BY MEANS OF STATE PARTITION. THE SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTED TO CREATE NEW STATES FOR LINGUISTICALLY DEFINED GROUPS WITHIN THE AFRICAN POPULATION, WITHOUT RESOLVING THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN CREATING NEW NATIONS OR DRAWING STATE BOUNDARIES. THE LACK OF LEGITIMACY AND THE DEGREE OF COERCION APPLIED IN THE POLICY'S ENFORCEMENT ENSURED FAILURE AND THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITARY STATE.

THE GROUP AREAS ACT IN SOUTH AFRICA HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL PIECES OF LEGISLATION OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY. SINCE ITS INITIAL ENACTMENT IN 1950 ALL THE TOWNS OF THE COUNTRY HAVE BEEN SUBJECT TO THE PROCESS OF DRAWING GROUP AREAS FOR THE EXCLUSIVE OWNERSHIP AND OCCUPATION OF VARIOUS LEGALLY-DEFINED RACIAL GROUPS WITH THE OBJECT OF ESTABLISHING COMPLETELY SEGREGATED CITIES. THE RATE OF PROCLAMATION HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO MARKED VARIATIONS AS THE PRIORITIES OF THE GOVERNMENT HAVE CHANGED. HOWEVER, DESPITE THE RHETORIC OF REFORM, NEW GROUP AREAS ARE STILL BEING ESTABLISHED OR OLD ONES MODIFIED. THE WHITE POPULATION HAS BENEFITTED MOST MARKEDLY IN THE INITIAL PROCESS, ALTHOUGH SINCE THE EARLY 1980S GREATER ATTENTION HAS BEEN DIRECTED TOWARDS THE NEEDS OF THE ASIAN AND COLORED COMMUNITIES AS A RESULT OF CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES. THE DISPARITY BETWEEN THE PROVISION OF LAND FOR WHITES ON THE ONE HAND AND OTHER COMMUNITIES REMAINS REMARKABLE WIDE.

"The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that marked the decades following the onset of AIDS. Challenging many of the assumptions behind first-wave queer theory, If Memory Serves offers a new perspective on the emergence of contemporary queer culture"--Provided by publisher

"The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that marked the decades following the onset of AIDS. Challenging many of the assumptions behind first-wave queer theory, If Memory Serves offers a new perspective on the emergence of contemporary queer culture"--Provided by publisher.