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.
Table of Content
Introduction: Dark Tales, White Wolves
PART I: SATANISM
1. Excavations
2. Anatomy Of A Moral Panic
3. History And Identity
4. Older Anxieties
5. Resistance And (Bio)Power
PART II: FAMILY MURDER
6. A Death In The Family
7. The Afrikaans Family Romance
8. A ‘ ‘Bloody Epidemic ‘ ‘
9. The Righteous Path
10. The Whitest White
Conclusion: The End Of Whiteness
About the author
Nicky Falkof was born and raised in the Johannesburg suburbs during the last years of apartheid. She holds an MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex and a Ph D from the London Consortium. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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