Unreasonable Histories : Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Christopher J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rassenmischung
Rassentrennung
Kolonialverwaltung
Racially mixed people.
Race relations.
Colonies > Administration.
British colonies.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Racially mixed people > Africa > History.
Namibia
Simbabwe
Malawi
Africa.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Relations raciales.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Afrique > Administration.
Great Britain > Colonies > Race relations.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > Administration.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 th.
Physical Description:1 online resource (364 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780822376378

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