Race, resistance, and the Boy Scout movement in British Colonial Africa / Timothy H. Parsons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parsons, Timothy, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scouts (Youth organization members)--Great Britain--Colonies.

Scouts (Youth organization members).

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--Administration.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--Race relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conceived by General Sir Robert Baden-Powell as a way to reduce class tensions in Edwardian Britain, scouting evolved into an international youth movement. It offered a vision of romantic outdoor life as a cure for disruption caused by industrialization and urbanization. Scouting's global spread was due to its success in attaching itself to institutions of authority. As a result, scouting has become embroiled in controversies in the civil rights struggle in the American South, in nationalist resistance movements in India, and in the contemporary American debate over gay rights.

Contents:

Introduction

Scouting and schools as colonial institutions

Pathfinding in Southern Africa, 1908/45

Scouting and the school in East Africa, 1910/45

Scouting and independency in East Africa, 1946/64

Scouting and apartheid in Southern Africa, 1945/80

Independence and after

Appendix : the scout law and promise.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-315) and index.

ISBN:

9780821441459

0821441450

OCLC:

887504073