Science, race relations and resistance
Subtitle: Britain, 1870-1914
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Aug 15, 2013
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780719033575
Description: By exploring the dimensions of race, race relations and resistance, this book offers a new account of the British Empire's greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture. Based on a wide range of published and archival sources, this book uncovers the conflicting opinions that characterised late Victorian and Edwardian discourse on the 'colour question'. It offers a revisionist account of race in science, and provides original studies of the invention of the language of race relations and of resistance to race-thinking led by radical abolitionists and persons of Asian and African descent living in the United Kingdom.
Notes: Source title: Science, race relations and resistance: Britain, 1870-1914 (Studies in Imperialism)