Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa [electronic resource] : Imagining the End of Whiteness /
Falkof, Nicky.author.
This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of social and political change reveals important truths about whiteness, gender, violence, history, nationalism and injustice in South Africa and beyond.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book discusses two moral panics that appeared in the media in late apartheid South Africa: the Satanism scare and the so-called epidemic of white family murder. The analysis of these symptoms of social and political change reveals important truths about whiteness, gender, violence, history, nationalism and injustice in South Africa and beyond.
Ethnology-Africa.
Social justice.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
African Culture.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Crime and Society.
Cultural Studies.