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Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography compiled by Stefan Blaschke |
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Start: Topical Index: Society: Rape Culture: Moral Panics:
Society: Rape Culture: »The Black Peril scares 'embittered race relations' in South Africa during the years before the First World War. In Southern Rhodesia, the situation was even more traumatic, since the 'black peril' scare of the early 1900s came in the wake of the 1896 war of resistance. Resultant embitterment lingered to the extent that throughout the first decades of colonialism there were periodic campaigns to control the supposedly excessive fundamental urges of African men. Much more clandestine, but far more of a reality was the rarely noted 'white peril', a wide range of sexual abuse of black women (and occasionally men) by settler males.« -- More information: Wikipedia Modern History: 20th Century |