Some white expelled farmers still refuse to relinquish Rhodesian identity decades later.

Evidence

Jim Barker’s Paradise Plundered: The Story of a Zimbabwean Farm (2007) is “the diary of a Rhodesian/Zimbabwean family that were forcibly evicted from their Karoi farm during the highly controversial ‘land grab’” (Barker, 2007, p. i). … Writing 27 years after the attainment of independence in 1980, it is quite revealing that Barker has not been able to put Rhodesia behind him. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 64

Categorization

• QUESTION: Key for the reader’s test: for Barker, the grievance clearly persists decoupled from actual power — he still identifies as Rhodesian after displacement. Worth examining why identity did not re-anchor to the new state.
• XREF: connects to: White farmer memoirs undercut their own entitlement claims by clinging to Rhodesian supremacist discourse — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 82; Harrison’s memoir frames Rhodesian land acquisition as earned by white work ethic — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 48; Both Rhodesian settler novels and ZANU-PF patriotic history erase fluid identities — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 44

Related

• White farmer memoirs undercut their own entitlement claims by clinging to Rhodesian supremacist discourse (similarity 0.87)
• White Zimbabwean authors write from a sustained Rhodesian supremacist mindset even after losing land (similarity 0.84)
• A displaced Rhodesian farmer still reveres settler politicians decades after losing power. (similarity 0.83)
• Harrison’s memoir frames Rhodesian land acquisition as earned by white work ethic (similarity 0.82)
• Rhodesian memoirism erases 90 years of black land hunger as legitimate motive (similarity 0.80)
• Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri — Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists White Authors and the Fast Track Land Reform Program in Post-2000 Zimbabwe (similarity 0.80)
• White Zimbabwean memoirs contest land loss via colonial-era ideology. (similarity 0.79)
• Resurrecting settler identities weakens rather than strengthens white land claims. (similarity 0.78)
• Both Rhodesian settler novels and ZANU-PF patriotic history erase fluid identities (similarity 0.78)