Imperial White
Subtitle: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; University of Minnesota Press
Published: November 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780816647798
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Social history; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - General; Europe - Great Britain - General; History & Theory - General; World - Colonial Studies; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations; Discrimination & Racism; 19th century; Colonies; Ethnicity; Great Britain; History; Race identity; Whites
Description: 'Imperial White' looks at literary, social, and cultural texts on the racialization of the British body and investigates British whiteness in the colonies in order to address such questions such as: How was the whiteness in Britishness constructed by Empire? How was whiteness incorporated into the idea of masculinity?