The allure of violence: Men, race and masculinity on the South African goldmines, 1900-1950
The allure of violence: Men, race and masculinity on the South African goldmines, 1900-1950
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10.1080/03057079808708596
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发表时间：
1998-12-01
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0.5
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Breckenridge, K
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作者：
Breckenridge, K
在现代工业世界的历史中，威特沃特斯兰德在四个关键方面脱颖而出。首先，劳动力规模从1910年的20万人增长到1940年的40多万人；其次，一个多世纪以来，这个行业几乎没有中断过；三是地理集中；第四，它的人口特征完全是男性。所有这四个特征都表明，我们需要密切关注一个重要问题：用康奈尔的话来说，什么样的男子气概是在南非金矿上形成的？一个简洁的答案浮现在我的脑海中。金矿明确塑造了种族男子气概，并严格监控他们之间的法律、经济和地理边界。在1900年到1950年之间，可能在那之后的一段时间里，南非白人和黑人之间的最终相遇是在地下的金矿上。我们掌握的这段关系的证据表明，这段关系的特点是高度的个人暴力。这篇文章探讨了工人之间的关系，并认为暴力在矿井中如此普遍的原因是，黑人和白人都把个人暴力的能力视为男子气概的一个关键因素。
Irt the history of the modern industrial world the Witwatersrand stands out in four key respects. First, the size of the workforce which grew from around 200,000 men in 1910 to over 400,000 in 1940; second, the longevity of an industry that has continued almost uninterrupted for well over a century; third its geographical concentration; and fourth, its exclusively male demographic character. All four of these features suggest that we need to pay very close attention to an important question: What kinds of masculinities, to use Connell's term, were forged on the South African gold mines? A succinct answer does spring to mind. The gold mines fashioned explicitly racial masculinities and ant intensely monitored legal, economic and geographical boundary between them. Between 1900 and 1950 and probably for some time thereafter, the definitive encounter between white and black men in South Africa was underground on the gold mines. The evidence that we have on the relationship suggests that it was characterised by high levels of personal violence. This article explores worker relationships, and argues that the reason that violence was so common on the mines was that both black and white men celebrated the capacity for personal violence as a key element of masculinity.