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Unreasonable histories : nativism, multiracial lives, and the genealogical imagination in British Africa / Christopher J. Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Christopher J.
- Series:
- Radical perspectives.
- Radical perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Multiracial people--Africa--History.
- Multiracial people.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--Administration.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (365 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- Idioms of place and history
- Adaima's story
- Coming of age
- The native undefined
- Commissions and circumvention
- Racism as a weapon of the weak
- Loyalty and disregard
- Urbanization and spatial belonging.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357254
- 0822357259
- 9780822376378
- 0822376377
- OCLC:
- 892914025
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