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Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New
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Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism Hardback - 2004 - 2nd Edition

by Sherene Razack

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Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally.

Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture.

The first reports of what became known in Canada as the Somalia Affair challenged national claims to a special expertise in peacekeeping and to a society free of racism. Today, however, despite a national inquiry into the deployment of troops to Somalia, what most Canadians are likely to associate with peacekeeping is the nation's glorious role as peacekeeper to the world. Moments of peacekeeping violence are attributed to a few bad apples, bad generals, and a rogue regiment.

In Dark Threats and White Knights, Sherene H. Razack explores the racism implicit in the Somalia Affair and what it has to do with modern peacekeeping. Examining the records of military trials and the public inquiry, Razack weaves together two threads: that of the violence itself and what would drive men to commit such atrocities, and secondly, the ways in which peacekeeping violence is largely forgiven and ultimately forgotten. Race disappears from public memory and what is installed in its place is a story about an innocent, morally superior middle-power nation obliged to discipline and sort out barbaric third world nations. Modern peacekeeping, Razack concludes, maintains a colour line between a family of white nations constructed as civilized and a third world constructed as a dark threat, a world in which violence is not only condoned but seen as necessary.

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  • Title Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism
  • Author Sherene Razack
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 230
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press, North York, ON, Canada
  • Publication date 2004-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780802087089 / 0802087086
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.46 x 0.93 in (23.67 x 16.41 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Racism, Imperialism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004557495
  • Dewey Decimal Code 967.730

About the author

Sherene H. Razack is a professor in the Department of Social Justice at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
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