Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884-1914)

Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884-1914)

by Diana Miryong Natermann
Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884-1914)

Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884-1914)

by Diana Miryong Natermann

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Overview

Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Africa. The transcolonial approach is based on egodocuments from Belgian, German and Swedish men and women who migrated to Central Africa for reasons like a love for adventure, social betterment, new gender roles, or the conviction that colonising was their patriotic duty. The author presents how colonisers constructed their whiteness in relation to the subalterns in everyday situations connected to friendship, animals, gender and food. White culture was often practiced to maintain the idea(l) of European supremacy, for example by upholding white dining cultures. The welcoming notion of "breaking bread" was replaced by a dining culture that reinforced white identity and segregated white from non-white people. By combining colonial history with whiteness studies in an African setting the author provides a different understanding of imperial realities as they were experienced by colonisers in situ.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783830936909
Publisher: Bod Third Party Titles
Publication date: 04/25/2021
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.57(d)
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