Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa - Brossura

Magubane, Zine

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226501779 ISBN 13: 9780226501772

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2003

Riassunto

How did South Africans become black? How did the idea of blackness influence conceptions of disadvantaged groups in England such as women and the poor, and vice versa?

Bringing the Empire Home tracks colonial images of blackness from South Africa to England and back again to answer questions such as these. Before the mid-1800s, black Africans were considered savage to the extent that their plight mirrored England's internal Others—women, the poor, and the Irish. By the 1900s, England's minority groups were being defined in relation to stereotypes of black South Africans. These stereotypes, in turn, were used to justify both new capitalist class and gender hierarchies in England and the subhuman treatment of blacks in South Africa. Bearing this in mind, Zine Magubane considers how marginalized groups in both countries responded to these racialized representations.

Revealing the often overlooked links among ideologies of race, class, and gender, Bringing the Empire Home demonstrates how much black Africans taught the English about what it meant to be white, poor, or female.

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L'autore

Zine Magubane is an associate professor of sociology and African studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author ofPostmodernism, Postcoloniality, and African Studies.

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Book by Magubane Zine

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0226501779
• ISBN 13: 9780226501772
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232