The images of whiteness in Zimbabwe projected in the media portrayed the white population as victims who were given over to the land and exposed to violence. In the award-winning documentary Mugabe and the White African, the film focuses on the white Zimbabwean family challenging the Fast Track land redistribution program. David McDermott Hughes interprets the perspectives of the earth, the landscape and its origins. In Whiteness in Zimbabwe, David McDermott Hughes's main argument is that European settlers identified with the African landscape rather than the social characteristics of native Africans. The importance of landscape to white identity led to the engineering and structural development of the landscape. Hughes argues that white colonizers used land, nature and ecology to escape social problems, to avoid the "other" who in this case were black Zimbabweans sharing the same living space. Through such landscape engineering, white Zimbabweans believed that they would belong to Zimbabwe and Africa. However, Hugh argues that “by determinedly inscribing themselves into the landscape, many whites erased themselves from society (p. 25).” Furthermore, Hughes argues that this was not a form of racism, but rather an escape from the social environment to avoid conflict. This concept led Hughes to want to stop romanticizing the earth to avoid social problems. Hughes argues that European settlers in Zimbabwe restructured the landscape by 'imagining the distant native' (xii), inserting their own identity into nature. The colonial representation of the landscape is empty, a place legitimized by occupation. “They shunned blacks, preferring instead to invest emotionally and artistically… middle of paper… black farmers and farmers. ughs believes that the displacement of white farmers was an inevitable consequence of their environmental and cultural outlook and decades of disconnection from both local and broader black society. Hugh states that white ZImbabweannes had no rights due to Indigeneity. Land reforms “recast white Zibabwe as European settlers – without colonial power! (p. 109).”Landscape is significant in shaping identity. In a political sense, it draws the boundaries of where a new country begins. Socially it draws the boundaries of the living space of different cultures and languages. In the case of white Zimbabweans, they interfered in the pre-existing culture, so there would be a culture clash. However to identify themselves as Zimbabweans and Africans. the landscape defined as exclusively geographical was a way to acquire one's identity.