The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia |
The Long Shadow of the British Empire: The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia
Palgrave Macmillan
2012-01-03
304 pges
13.800 x 8.250 inches, includes 10 pgs illus
ISBN: 978-0-230-34018-3, ISBN10: 0-230-34018-0
Juliette Bridgette Milner-Thornton, Adjunct Research Fellow
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
The Long Shadow of the British Empire explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, and the associations they created from these social interactions and the enduring legacies of their relationships. It examines the centrality of gender and social identity in the formation of non-western people in the British Empire more generally and Northern Rhodesia specifically. Combining anthropological and autoethnographical historical methods, it describes the social, economic, political, and educational disadvantages Eurafricans—more commonly known as ‘Coloured’ in Zambia—were subjected to on account of their mixed heritage and the legacies of these racist practices in their present-day lives.
Table of Contents
- White Men’s Visitations
- The Long Shadow of the British Empire
- Bodily Inscriptions and Colonial Legitimizations
- The Half-Caste Education Debate
- Imperial Networks in a Transnational Context
- Coloreds’ Status in Northern Rhodesia
- The Fault of Our European Fathers
- To Be or Not to Be: Creating Coloredness in the 1950s