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 Irish. 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226501772
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96490140
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Regional History
Author
Zine Magubane
Publication Name
Bringing the Empire Home-Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
227mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
384g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Zine Magubane
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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