Bringing the empire home : race, class, and gender in Britain and colonial South Africa / Zine Magubane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magubane, Zine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--South Africa--Public opinion.

Black people.

Public opinion--Great Britain.

Public opinion.

Colonies.

Race relations.

Marginality, Social.

History.

Racism.

Great Britain.

South African War, 1899-1902.

Racism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Marginality, Social--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Marginality, Social--South Africa--History--19th century.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--Race relations.

South Africa--Foreign public opinion, British.

South Africa.

Africa.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Summary:

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 frish. 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.

Contents:

The metaphors of race matter(s)

Capitalism, female embodiment, and the transformation of commodification into sexuality

Savage paupers

The care of the social body

Truncated citizenship

White skins, white masks

What is (African) America to me?

Rearticulation of blackness

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-208) and index.

ISBN:

0226501760

0226501779

OCLC:

52335109