" Explain the obsession amongst European settlers in sub-Saharan Africa with 'black' and 'yellow' perils". ISSUES OF MISCEGENATION AND RACIAL PURITY: There was a general outrage at the concept of mixed race relations within colonial Europe, especially within Britain, who did not take the same line on the subject of assimilation as their French and especially Portuguese counterparts. Although mixed relationships between white males and coloured females were tolerated, similar such relationships concerning white women were …showed first 75 words of 1827 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1827 total…of 'perils' were a pretext to justify the actions of colonial settlers and administrators, and also preserve the existing theories of race, gender and class. BIBLIOGRAPHY : 1) "White settlers in Tropical Africa" L. H. Gann & P. Duignan (1962) 2) " Re-inventing Africa" Annie. E. Coombes (1994) 3) " Tensions of Empire" F. Cooper & A. l. Stoler (1997) 4) " Africans- THE HISTORY OF A CONTINENT " J. Iliffe (1995) 5) " Chronicle of the World" D. Mercer (1996) 6) "Imperial leather. Race, Gender and Sexuality in the colonial context" A. McClintock (1995)