Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa-contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia-from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing...
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Zusammenfassung: | In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa-contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia-from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of evidence-including organizational documents, court records, personal letters, commission reports, popular periodicals, photographs, and oral testimony-Lee traces the emergence of Anglo-African, Euro-African, and Eurafrican subjectivities which constituted a grassroots Afro-Britishness that defied colonial categories of native and non-native. Discriminated against and often impoverished, these subaltern communities crafted a genealogical imagination that reconfigured kinship and racial descent to make political claims and generate affective meaning. But these critical histories equally confront a postcolonial reason that has occluded these experiences, highlighting uneven imperial legacies that still remain. Based on research in five countries, Unreasonable Histories ultimately revisits foundational questions in the field, to argue for the continent's diverse heritage and to redefine the meanings of being African in the past and present-and for the future |
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Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (368 pages) 51 illustrations |
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spelling | Lee, Christopher J. Verfasser aut Unreasonable Histories Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa Christopher J. Lee Durham Duke University Press [2015] © 2015 1 online resource (368 pages) 51 illustrations txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Radical Perspectives Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020) In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa-contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia-from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of evidence-including organizational documents, court records, personal letters, commission reports, popular periodicals, photographs, and oral testimony-Lee traces the emergence of Anglo-African, Euro-African, and Eurafrican subjectivities which constituted a grassroots Afro-Britishness that defied colonial categories of native and non-native. Discriminated against and often impoverished, these subaltern communities crafted a genealogical imagination that reconfigured kinship and racial descent to make political claims and generate affective meaning. But these critical histories equally confront a postcolonial reason that has occluded these experiences, highlighting uneven imperial legacies that still remain. Based on research in five countries, Unreasonable Histories ultimately revisits foundational questions in the field, to argue for the continent's diverse heritage and to redefine the meanings of being African in the past and present-and for the future In English HISTORY / Africa / Central bisacsh Racially mixed people Africa History https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822376378 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
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title | Unreasonable Histories Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa |
title_auth | Unreasonable Histories Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa |
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