Robert,
 
I know of three works re differential racial access to drink in South Africa: Charles Ambler and Jonathan Crush, "Alcohol in Southern African History," and Pamela Scully, "Liquor and Labor in the Western Cape," both in Liquor and Labor in South Africa, ed. Crush and Ambler (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1992), 1-55, 56-77, and Leslie London, "The 'Dop' System . . . in South Africa," Social Science and Medicine 48 (1999): 1407-1414. 
 
Peter Mancall's Deadly Medicine also has a fair amount of material on laws against selling alcohol to Indians in the early American era, if that's any comparative help.
 
What's the thesis? That, say, a Meti man becomes "white" if he can legally purchase a drink? 
 
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From: Alcohol and Drugs History Society on behalf of Robert Campbell
Sent: Sun 5/28/2006 12:48 PM
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Subject: liquor as white privilege



Hello,
A colleague of mine has asked about secondary literature on liquor as a white privilege, particularly in the Canadian context. My work certainly has assumed that privilege, but it does not discuss how access to alcohol can be part of the process of creating "whiteness."
Regards,
Robert Campbell


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