Synopsis
This book tells the story of how people struggled to define, reform, and overturn racial etiquette as a social guide for Southern Rhodesian politics. Underneath what appears to be a static history of racial etiquette is a dynamic story 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 racial etiquette would contain Africans' desire for social and political change.
