"White soldiers who fought to defend white rule in Southern Africa years in the 1960s and 1970s are generally thought to be unreconstructed racists, men whose ideas about Africans and the superiority of white people blinded them to the realities of the postcolonial world. Using …
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In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia during the 1964-1979 Zimbabwean liberation struggle. In the memoirs of white soldiers fighting to defend white minor…
"White soldiers who fought to defend white rule in Southern Africa years in the 1960s and 1970s are generally thought to be unreconstructed racists, men whose ideas about Africans and the superiority of white people blinded them to the realities of the postcolonial world. Using …
On Place Names, Acronyms, and Currency -- Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle and Rhodesia's Bush War: Locating its History -- "Blood and Ink": Memoirs, authors, histories -- "Your Shona is better than mine!": Blacking up and the pleasures of counterinsurgency -- "Every footprint tel…
"White soldiers who fought to defend white rule in Southern Africa years in the 1960s and 1970s are generally thought to be unreconstructed racists, men whose ideas about Africans and the superiority of white people blinded them to the realities of the postcolonial world. Using …
"White soldiers who fought to defend white rule in Southern Africa years in the 1960s and 1970s are generally thought to be unreconstructed racists, men whose ideas about Africans and the superiority of white people blinded them to the realities of the postcolonial world. Using …
"Luise White examines the contentious war memoirs published after the Zimbabwean liberation struggle (1964-1979) by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia."--
In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980 Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to the policies and practices o…
In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (after 1980, Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to the policies and practices …