‘The trace’ is central to the Whites Writing Whiteness project. Traces are what remains. They include letters, wages-slips, photographs, shopping lists, appointment diaries, sketch-maps, draft Wills, notes and copies… And how best to analyse them? They need to be considered in their individuality, and also what they add up to. New traces are added  on a routine basis and there are four new ones to draw to attention. These are shown in the list below, taken from the Traces pages. Click the links to access them.

• Reservation of Separate Amenities Act 1953: whites only NEW!
• It’s most unjust: Shepherd to Klazo, 20 July 1960 NEW!
• Where our country is going: Goldberg to Botha 13 February 1985 NEW!
• Olive Schreiner’s Address to the Universal Races Congress, 1911 NEW!
• Seeing race, seeing Mrs Brown, 1890s
• 30 May 1808, concerning the Bosjiesman Nation
• 4 June 1948, Dr DF Malan addressed the voters of S Africa
• MORE!

Last updated: 4 August 2022