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Title:

EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION
GRADATIONS OF WHITENESS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ENGINEERING IN GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA, 1884-1914

By:

Robbie Aitken

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

3039110608

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9783039110605

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Publisher:

VERLAG PETER LANG

Pub. date:

1 August, 2007

Series:

Cultural Identity Studies 6

Pages:

265

Synopsis:

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 would be 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.

Publication:

Switzerland

Imprint:

Verlag Peter Lang

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