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dc.contributor.authorNatermann, Diana Miryong
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-23T05:31:16Z
dc.date.available2022-04-23T05:31:16Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54129
dc.description.abstractPursuing 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/>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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialismen_US
dc.subject.otherPolitical Science
dc.subject.otherColonialism & Post-colonialism
dc.titlePursuing Whiteness in the Colonies
dc.title.alternativePrivate Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914) (Volume 3)
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.31244/9783830936909
oapen.relation.isPublishedByWaxmann Verlag
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9783830986904
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintWaxmann Verlag GmbH
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/9e40562c-ab5a-4a3f-912f-3690ee90fa2d
oapen.identifier.isbn9783830986904
grantor.number7178


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