Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism

The exposure of racist violence perpetrated by Canadian peacekeeping troops in Somalia, and the subsequent military trials and national inquiry, which came to be known as the Somalia Affair, is used as a case study in the construction of a modern "color line" between "civilized" white nations and "uncivilized" Third World nations. Tellingly prefacing her book with Kipling's "The White Man's Burden," Razack (sociology and equity studies in education, U. of Toronto) argues that the legal narratives employed in the courtroom exposes the construction of a national narrative "of a middle-power peacekeeping nation and a global one about a family of civilized nations forced to stand together to confront 'absolute evil.'" Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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