Class, Work and Whiteness - Race and Settler Colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 191979

This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in the settler colonial context.

List of contents

Introduction
1 The making of white worker identity
2 The Great Depression and shifting boundaries of 'white work'
3 The Second World War
4 The 'multiracial' Central African Federation, 1953-63
5 White fights, white flight and the Rhodesian Front, 1962-79
Conclusion
Selected bibliography
Index

About the author

Nicola Ginsburgh is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State, South Africa

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Ginsburgh
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781526143877
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4387-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Zimbabwe, HISTORY / Africa / South / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, African History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General