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Bringing the Empire Home
Zine Magubane
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Description for Bringing the Empire Home
Paperback. Zine Magubane tracks colonial images of blackness from South Africa to England and back again to reveal the often overlooked links among ideologies of race, class, and gender. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMS; GTB; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226501772
SKU
V9780226501772
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