War in a ‘white man’s country’: Australian perceptions of blackness on the South African battlefield, 1899-1902

Title: War in a ‘white man’s country’: Australian perceptions of blackness on the South African battlefield, 1899-1902
Creator: Karageorgos, Effie
Relation: History Australia Vol. 15, Issue 2, p. 323-338
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2018.1452155
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: 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 nonwhites. 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’.
Subject: Australia; soldiers; South African war; Boers; Britain
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1437242
Identifier: uon:40284
Identifier: ISSN:1449-0854
Language: eng
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