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War in a ‘white man’s country’: Australian perceptions of blackness on the South African battlefield, 1899-1902.
- Source :
- History Australia; Jun2018, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p323-338, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Australians volunteered to fight in the South African War at a time when transnational constructions of whiteness determined policy within the British Empire and its colonies towards non-whites. However, the commencement of war in 1899 necessitated a shift in the definition of ‘other’ to justify combat against the white Boer enemy. This article analyses late nineteenth-century settler colonialism in Australia alongside the letters and diaries of Australian South African War soldiers to demonstrate the effect of both affinities with the Boers as inhabitants of a ‘white man’s country’ and conventional perceptions of blackness on their reactions to the South African ‘other’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14490854
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- History Australia
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 130055496
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2018.1452155