White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War
White Women and Men of Colour: Miscegenation Fears in Britain after the Great War
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白人女性和有色人种男性：第一次世界大战后英国的异族通婚恐惧
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2005
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L. Bland
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这篇文章考察了第一次世界大战后英国对种族隔离的恐惧，指出了三种占主导地位的话语：种族隔离不可避免地导致白人和黑人之间的暴力(重点关注1919年的种族骚乱)，这些关系涉及性不道德(分析1920年的《莱茵河上的黑人恐怖》，涉及一名白人女性、一名中国男性和毒品的案件，以及一名白人女性杀害她的埃及丈夫的审判)，以及种族间种婚姻产生了“灾难性的”生育后果。有人认为，种族通婚是英国的一个分界线，区分了国家可以接受的和国家威胁的。相关各方--“原始”的有色人种男子、“低级”的白人女子和“格格不入”的后代--都因其变态的性取向而被病态对待。然而，种族间的关系并没有减少，恰恰相反。英国向更多种族混血社区的转变始于一战后的几年，当时某些白人女性做出了违背受人尊敬的女性特质标准的选择。
This article examines miscegenation fears in Britain in the period after World War I, noting three dominant discourses: that miscegenation leads inevitably to violence between white and black men (focusing on the 1919 race riots), that these relationships involve sexual immorality (analysing the 1920 ‘Black Horror on the Rhine’, a case involving a white woman, a Chinese man and drugs and a trial of a white woman for killing her Egyptian husband) and that miscegenation has ‘disastrous’ procreative consequences. It is suggested that miscegenation stood as one British boundary marker, separating the nationally acceptable and the nationally threatening. The parties concerned – the ‘primitive’ man of colour, the white woman of a ‘low type’ and the ‘misfit’ offspring – were each pathologised in terms of their deviant sexuality. Yet interracial relationships did not decrease, quite the contrary. The move in Britain towards a more racially mixed community began in the years after the Great War, when certain white women made choices against the norms of respectable femininity.