Race and the construction of the dispensable other
By: Bernard M. Magubane.
Publisher: Unisa
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Pretoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781868883264
Subjects: Racism -- History; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Africa; Great Britain -- Race relations; South Africa -- Race relations; South Africa -- Colonization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Some methodological and theoretical issues; title: The foundations of racism; title: Europe and its Others; title: 'From Orang-Outangs to pumpkin eaters': The case of Edward Long's History of Jamaica; title: Race, the Second British Empire and the role of the evangelicals; title: Robert Knox: The races of men; title: race as destiny : the politics of Dr James Hunt and the Anthropological Society of London 1863 to 1870; title: Eugenics and the doctrine of class and racial supremacy : the case of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson; title: Race as an Imperial weapon: convicts and the extinction of Tasmanians; title: The political economy of scientific racism in South Africa; title: The discovery of diamonds and its aftermath; title: Race and the construction of the dispensable Other: the 'Everlasting Nay' to the prospect of change.