Empire, race and the politics of anti-caste / by Caroline Bressey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bressey, Caroline.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Impey, Catherine.

Anti-caste (Street, Somerset).

Anti-racism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Anti-racism.

Political activists--England--Biography.

Political activists.

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

Racism.

Women political activists--England--Biography.

Women political activists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste provides the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Impey and her radical political magazine, Anti-Caste. Published monthly from 1888, Anti-Caste published articles that exposed and condemned racial prejudice across the British Empire and the United States. Editing the magazine from her home in Street, Somerset, Impey welcomed African and Asian activists and made Street an important stop on the political tour for numerous foreign guests, reorienting geographies of political activism that usually locate anti-racist politics wi

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Loving Ghosts; Part 1 Questioning Caste; 2 Awakening in America; 3 Building a New Community; 4 Magazine to Movement; Part 2 Geographies of Oppression; 5 The American Question; 6 Firing at Long Range; 7 Criticizing Empire; Part 3 The Personal is Political; 8 A Broken Fraternity; 9 A New Bond of Brotherhood; 10 Triumph of the Colour Line; 11 Hauntings; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78093-579-X