Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies
Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Afric...
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2022
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | OCN: 1319892347 |
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| author | Natermann, Diana Miryong |
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| description | Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Africa. The transcolonial approach is based on egodocuments from Belgian, German and Swedish men and women who migrated to Central Africa for reasons like a love for adventure, social betterment, new gender roles, or the conviction that colonising was their patriotic duty.<br/><br/>The author presents how colonisers constructed their whiteness in relation to the subalterns in everyday situations connected to friendship, animals, gender and food. White culture was often practiced to maintain the idea(l) of European supremacy, for example by upholding white dining cultures. The welcoming notion of ‘breaking bread’ was replaced by a dining culture that reinforced white identity and segregated white from non-white people.<br/>By combining colonial history with whiteness studies in an African setting the author provides a different understanding of imperial realities as they were experienced by colonisers in situ. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-815122025-07-31T03:28:23Z Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies Natermann, Diana Miryong Political Science Colonialism & Post-colonialism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Africa. The transcolonial approach is based on egodocuments from Belgian, German and Swedish men and women who migrated to Central Africa for reasons like a love for adventure, social betterment, new gender roles, or the conviction that colonising was their patriotic duty.<br/><br/>The author presents how colonisers constructed their whiteness in relation to the subalterns in everyday situations connected to friendship, animals, gender and food. White culture was often practiced to maintain the idea(l) of European supremacy, for example by upholding white dining cultures. The welcoming notion of ‘breaking bread’ was replaced by a dining culture that reinforced white identity and segregated white from non-white people.<br/>By combining colonial history with whiteness studies in an African setting the author provides a different understanding of imperial realities as they were experienced by colonisers in situ. 2022-05-13T00:16:02Z 2022-05-13T00:16:02Z 2022-04-23T05:31:16Z 2018 book OCN: 1319892347 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54129 9783830986904 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81512 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54129/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54129/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54129/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54129/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54129/1/external_content.pdf Waxmann Verlag GmbH https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830936909 https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830936909 Knowledge Unlatched 9783830986904 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2022: HSS Backlist Books Waxmann Verlag GmbH open access |
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