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The Black Peril refers to the fear of colonial settlers that black men are attracted to white women and are having sexual relations with them. This goes back to class and race prejudices. Examples can be seen in British colonialism of India and Africa.One of the major areas that has been written and documented in having experienced the Black Peril is South Africa,or more specifically in certain writings, Southern Rhodesia, which later became the modern day country Zimbabwe in 1980. Black Peril is a colonial based fear that started in Southern Rhodesia and survived all the way to the independence of Zimbabwe. Black Rape scares were not unique or scarce to South Africa since well-documented parallels have ranged in place and time from "the southern United States in the late 1860s' to Papua in the 1920s".〔D. Kennedy (1987), Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1890-1939 (Duke University Press, Durham,pp 138) ISBN 978-0822307082〕 It was theorized that the fear of this Black Peril, the rape threats, as seen through the eyes of the white male settlers, were essentially a "rationalization of white men's fear of sexual competition from black men".〔Cornwell, Gareth (1996) George Webb Hardy's The Black Peril and the Social Meaning of 'Black Peril' in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies , Vol. 22, No. 3 , pp. 441 URL: http://www.jstor.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/2637313〕 The "'Black Peril' outcries from white settlers in Southern Rhodesia provided an outlet for anxieties about weakness within the 'body politic'" since the 'Whites shared a conceptual language for crisis and it was corporeal'.〔McCulloch, John (2000), Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935 p 82 ISBN 978-0253337283〕 It was through this thought process that the 'Black Peril' panics led to specific actions that served the interests of the white settler men in these areas.〔Jeater, Diana (2002) Review of RhodesiaBlack Peril, White Virtue. Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935 by Jock McCulloch, pp 465, URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/823397 .〕 == History == The black peril' scares 'embittered race relations' in South Africa during the years before the First World War.〔Jeater, Diana (2002) Review of RhodesiaBlack Peril, White Virtue. Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1935 by Jock McCulloch, pp 466, URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/823397 .〕 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.〔Vambe, Lawrence (1976) From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, p. 110 ISBN 0822933179, 9780822933175〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Peril」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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