Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935

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This book deals with the panics which swept Southern Rhodesia in the period from 1902 until the mid 1930s. The supposed sexual threat posed by the proximity of black men and white women. It also resulted in the execution of innocent men for the crimes of rape and attempted rape. The panics, which were known as Black Peril, were complex events which encompass such topics as the management of venereal disease, the politics of concubinage, and the construction of whiteness.

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This book deals with the panics which swept Southern Rhodesia in the period from 1902 until the mid 1930s. The supposed sexual threat posed by the proximity of black men and white women. It also resulted in the execution of innocent men for the crimes of rape and attempted rape. The panics, which were known as Black Peril, were complex events which encompass such topics as the management of venereal disease, the politics of concubinage, and the construction of whiteness.

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Herman M. Hattaway
Exciting…The detailed story of the struggle for patriarchal white power in a settler colony, [and] the violent means used to extend control over male and female African bodies.
—Karen Tranberg Hasen, Northwestern University
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780253337283
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publication date: 7/28/2000
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 288
  • Lexile: 1430L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 6.48 (w) x 9.54 (h) x 1.11 (d)

Meet the Author

Jock McCulloch is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne. His principle interest is in contemporary African history. Previously he has worked as a Legislative Research Specialist in foreign affairs for the Australian Parliament and has taught at various universities. His work has taken him to Algeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Kenya. An author of six books including Colonial Psychiatry and the "African Mind", Cambridge University Press, Jock McCulloch is now working on the history of asbestos mining in southern Africa.

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Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Black Peril: The Crimes
3. Violence and Justice
4. Legislating Virtue
5. Explaining Black Peril
6. White Women
7. Domestic Labor
8. Black Women
9. Syphilis
10. Coloreds, Poor Whites and Boundaries
11. Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography

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