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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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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At a little after 8 P.M. on Saturday, October 17, 1908, Miss Janette Falconer, who worked as a shop assistant in Umtali, a small town near the Mozambique border, left the Cecil Hotel for her lodgings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black peril cases, suppression ordinance, immorality ordinance, morality ordinances, traveling prostitute, native affairs committee, assistant native commissioner, chief native commissioner, native department, affairs advisory committee, native affairs department, morality legislation, native commissioners, government medical officer, legislative council debate, resident commissioner, culpable homicide, mine compounds, illicit sexual intercourse, white prostitutes, native location, native policy, male legislators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, Miss Falconer, Miss Dobbs, Pioneer Street, World War One, High Court, British Empire, Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, Sam Lewis, Cape Town, Attorney General Tredgold, Cape Avenue, Rhodesian Herald, Rhodesian Women's League, White Peril, Department of Education, Miss Darvel, Anglo-Boer War, Ann Stoler, Charles Coghlan, Doris Lessing, Legislative Assembly, Miss Duthie, Northern Rhodesia New!
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At a little after 8 P.M. on Saturday, October 17, 1908, Miss Janette Falconer, who worked as a shop assistant in Umtali, a small town near the Mozambique border, left the Cecil Hotel for her lodgings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black peril cases, suppression ordinance, immorality ordinance, morality ordinances, traveling prostitute, native affairs committee, assistant native commissioner, chief native commissioner, native department, affairs advisory committee, native affairs department, morality legislation, native commissioners, government medical officer, legislative council debate, resident commissioner, culpable homicide, mine compounds, illicit sexual intercourse, white prostitutes, native location, native policy, male legislators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, Miss Falconer, Miss Dobbs, Pioneer Street, World War One, High Court, British Empire, Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, Sam Lewis, Cape Town, Attorney General Tredgold, Cape Avenue, Rhodesian Herald, Rhodesian Women's League, White Peril, Department of Education, Miss Darvel, Anglo-Boer War, Ann Stoler, Charles Coghlan, Doris Lessing, Legislative Assembly, Miss Duthie, Northern Rhodesia New!
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- The Grass Is Singing: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Doris Lessing on 6 pages
- The Birth of a Dilemma: The Conquest and Settlement of Rhodesia by Philip Mason on 5 pages
- Empire and Sexuality (Studies in Imperalism) by Ronald Hyam on 5 pages
- Gender, Culture, and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria by Helen Callaway on 4 pages
- Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa by Saul Dubow on 4 pages
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- Gender and Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion) by Philippa Levine on page 140, and page 224
- Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya by Lynn M. Thomas in Back Matter
- White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960 by Lisa Lindquist Dorr in Back Matter
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