"Neil Roos's Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society is an outstanding work of scholarship. This is a book which will be both a signal contribution to the social history of Southern Africa, but also of considerable interest to scholars working on issues of race in the United States and elsewhere. It's lively, engaging and personal style, combines academic rigor with accessibility."—Jonathan Hyslop, Colgate University

"This is really a remarkable book, most notably for how the narrative of apartheid society in its early years is meshed with selected visual and textual moments from the author's family autobiography. What is important is that for the most part the linkages are not always self-evident, and it is left to the reader to make the connections."—Leslie Witz - University of the Western Cape), H-S Africa

"Neil Roos's book is a landmark book in South African historiography. This is a very compelling book, beautifully written and structured. Social history is not easy to write because it demands that a mass of detail, ordinarily considered uninteresting because it documents the unremarkable, the quotidian, be rendered as a narrative that eschews great events."—Robert Morrell, Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies