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Exclusion and Inclusion

By Robbie Aitken

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Exclusion and Inclusion

By Robbie Aitken

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
270
Release Date:
2007-08-14
Publication Date:
2007-08-14
Publisher:
Peter Lang
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3039110608
ISBN13:
9783039110605
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
375 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
220 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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