Race, resistance, and the Boy Scout movement in British Colonial Africa
Timothy Parsons (Author)
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
History
1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages) : illustrations, map
9780821441459, 9780821415955, 0821441450, 0821415956
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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
English