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Article: Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2003
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Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935. By Jock McCulloch (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2000. ix plus 272pp. $35.00).
The larger theme of this book is paranoia and paradox. More specifically, it focuses on the obsession of white male colonizers in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with the sexuality of colonized African men, most notably in relation to white women. The imagined "black peril" that resulted from that fixation, Jock McCulloch argues, was a major feature of Rhodesian white settler society between 1902 and 1935, and especially from 1902 to 1916.
That is the paranoia. The paradox is ...