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MEANING OF WHITE OHM C
By Mizutani
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Description
Only those whites with social status, cultural refinement, and the right level of education were able to command the respect and awe of colonized subjects. Among those who straddled the boundaries of whiteness were the 'domiciled community', made up of mixed-descent 'Eurasians' and racially unmixed 'Domiciled Europeans', both of whom lived in India on a permanent basis. Members of this community, or those who were categorized as such under the Raj, unwittingly rendered the meaning of whiteness ambiguous in fundamental ways.
The colonial authorities quickly identified the domiciled community as a particularly malign source of political instability and social disorder, and were constantly urged to furnish various institutional measures - predominantly philanthropic and educational by character - that specifically targeted its degraded conditions. The Meaning of White reveals the precise ways in which the existence of this community was identified as a problem (the 'Eurasian Question') and examines the deeper historical meanings of this categorization. Dr Mizutani demystifies the ideology of whiteness, situating it within the concrete social realities of colonial history.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
252
Release Date:
2012-02-01
Publication Date:
2011-10-06
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199697701
ISBN13:
9780199697700
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Weight:
453 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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