Isbn: 9783039110605 - exclusion and inclusion: gradations of whiteness and socio-economic engineering in german southwest africa, 1884-1914 (cultural identity studies, band 6) (6 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Series: Cultural Identity Studies. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJH; HBLL; HBTB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394. . 2007. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book sets out to examine the internal workings of a colonial settler society drawing on aspects of post-colonial theory and whiteness studies. It focuses on the construction of a hierarchical social order in German Southwest Africa in the period 1884-1914. In doing so it explores the historical creation of categories of race and the construction of a concept of whiteness within white settler society in Germany's foremost settler colony. In the colonial environment the presence of some settlers was deemed to be more desirable than others. As a consequence policies of exclusion and racial rhetoric were employed to exclude undesirable settlers from white society. What emerged was a pioneer society in which undesirable settlers were socially, politically and economically excluded whilst desirable settlers sought to forge a racially and culturally exclusive utopia. Based on extensive archival material from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin as well as a wide range of printed sources, the book presents an insight into strategies of social control, power, the establishment of social privilege and constructions of whiteness in a settler society.…