- 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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