Introduction; Part 1 Theoretical and Descriptive; Chapter 1 The Theory of the Marginal Man and Its Critics; Chapter 2 The Concept of the Marginal Situation; Chapter 3 The Historical Development of the Situation of the Durban Coloureds; Chapter 4 The Durban Coloureds and Their Marginal Situation; Part 2 Empirical Analysis of the Concomitants of the Marginal Situation; Chapter 5 Politics; Chapter 6 Part icipation in Organized Associations; Chapter 7 Inter-Stratum Relations; Chapter 8 The Coloured Stratum from Within and Some Responses to Membership of IT; Part 3 Analysis of the Links Between the Marginal Situation and Psychological Marginality; Chapter 9 Psychological Marginality and the Marginal Situation; Chapter 10 Summary of Conclusions in Respect of the Marginal Situation and of its Links with Psychological Marginality;