Title The nature of whiteness : race, animals, and nation in Zimbabwe / Yuka Suzuki

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) Series Culture, place, and nature Culture, place, and nature. Contents The leopard's black and white spots -- A short settler history -- Black baboons and white rubbish trees -- Reinstating nature, reinventing morality -- The uses of animals -- Wildlife contested Summary "The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe. Nature and environment have played prominent roles in white Zimbabwean identity, and when the political tide turned against white farmers after independence, nature was the most powerful resource they had at their disposal. In the 1970s, "Mlilo," a private conservancy sharing boundaries with Hwange National Park, became the first site in Zimbabwe to experiment with "wildlife production," and by the 1990s, wildlife tourism had become one of the most lucrative industries in the country. Mlilo attained international notoriety in 2015 as the place where Cecil the Lion was killed by a trophy hunter. Yuka Suzuki provides a balanced study of whiteness, the conservation of nature, and contested belonging in twenty-first-century southern Africa. The Nature of Whiteness is a fascinating account of human-animal relations and the interplay among categories of race and nature in this embattled landscape."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject White people -- Race identity -- Zimbabwe Nature conservation -- Zimbabwe Wildlife management -- Zimbabwe SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General. Nature conservation Race relations White people -- Race identity Wildlife management Tiere Mensch Ethnische Identität Weiße SUBJECT Zimbabwe -- Race relations Subject Zimbabwe Simbabwe Form Electronic book LC no. 2021692814 ISBN 9780295999555 0295999551

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