Exclusion and Inclusion : Gradations of Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1914

Robbie Aitken

ISBN 10: 3039110608 / ISBN 13: 9783039110605

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2007

Beschreibung

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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783039110605

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Exclusion and Inclusion : Gradations of Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1914
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3039110608
• ISBN-13: 9783039110605
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 220B x 150 H x 15 T Millimeter Breite: 220 mm, Höhe: 150 mm, Tiefe: 15 mm
• Gewicht: 375 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Author: Robbie Aitken graduated from the University of St Andrews, Scotland before gaining a doctorate in German Studies from the University of Liverpool in 2002. He is currently a Research Fellow in the German Department at the University of Liverpool.