Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Magubane, Zine
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- Title Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa
- Author Magubane, Zine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 222
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date 2003
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0226501779I3N00
- ISBN 9780226501772 / 0226501779
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.08 x 0.53 in (22.91 x 15.44 x 1.35 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Public opinion - Great Britain, South Africa - Race relations
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003011744
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
First line
"Woman," John Lennon once said, "is the nigger of the world."
From the rear cover
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.