Bringing the Empire Home
Subtitle: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780226501765
Subjects: African studies; History; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Republic of South Africa; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Anthropology - Cultural; Europe - Great Britain - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; General; Africa; Blacks; Colonies; Great Britain; Public opinion; South Africa; South African War, 1899-1902
First sentence: "Woman," John Lennon once said, "is the nigger of the world."
Description: "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"--Jacket