Imperial leather : race gender and sexuality in the colonial contest Introduction: postcolonialism and the angel of progress The lay of the land: genealogies of imperialism Massa and maids: power and desire in the imperial metropolis Imperial leather: race cross dressing and the cult of domesticity Psychoanalysis race and female fetishism Soft soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising The white family of man: colonial discourse and the reinvention of patriarchy Olive Schreiner: the limits of colonial feminism The scandal of hybridity: Black womens resistance and narrative ambiguity Azikwelwa (we will not ride): cultural resistance in the desperate decades No longer in a future heaven: nationalism gender and race Postscript: the angel of progress