sentences:  It was theorized that the fear of this Black Peril, the rape threats, as seen through the eyes of the white male settlers, were essentially a "rationalization of white men's fear of sexual competition from black men".The "'Black Peril' outcries from white settlers in Southern Rhodesia provided an outlet for anxieties about
  weakness within the 'body politic'" since the 'Whites shared a conceptual language for crisis and
  it was corporeal'.It was through this thought process that the 'Black Peril' panics led to specific actions that served the interests of the white settler men in these areas.