Unreasonable Histories - Nativism, Multiracial Lives, Genealogical Imagination in British

Christopher J. Lee is based at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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List of contents

A Note on Illustrations ix

A Note on Terminology xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genealogical Imagination 1

Part I. Histories without Groups: Lower Strata Lives, Enduring Regional Practices, and the Prose of Colonial Nativism 23

1. Idioms of Place and History 27

2. Adaima's Story 53

3. Coming of Age 72

Part II. Non-Native Questions: Genealogical States and Colonial Bare Life 91

4. The Native Undefined 95

5. Commissions and Circumventions 111

Part III. Colonial Kinships: Regional Histories, Uncustomary Politics, and the Genealogical Imagination 141

6. Racism as a Weapon of the Weak 147

7. Loyalty and Disregard 175

8. Urbanization and Spatial Belonging 207

Conclusion: Genealogies of Colonialism 233

Notes 249

Bibliography 305

Index 337

About the author

Christopher J. Lee is based at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
 

Product details

• Authors: Christopher J Lee, Christopher J. Lee
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2014
• EAN: 9780822357131
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5713-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Radical Perspectives; Radical Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous