Manners Make a Nation: Racial Etiquette in by Allison K. Shutt HARDBACK

Manners Make a NationRacial Etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910-1963\nAuthor(s): Allison K. Shutt\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781580465205, 978-1580465205\nSynopsis\nShortlisted for the inaugural award of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize\n\n Tells the story of how people struggled to define, refine, reform, and ultimately overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics.\n\nThis book tells the story of how people struggled to define, reform, and overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics. Underlying what appears to be a static history of racial etiquette is a dynamicnarrative of anxieties over racial, gender, and generational status. From the outlawing of \""insolence\"" toward officials to a last-ditch \""courtesy campaign\"" in the early 1960s, white elites believed that their nimble use of racialetiquette would contain Africans' des.