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Item Details
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LOST WHITE TRIBES
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| By: |
Riccardo Orizio |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£15.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0436275058 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780436275050 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
6 April, 2000 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Description: |
An investigation of the descendants of the first European colonialists in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, who are outcasts in their own countries, due to the fairness of their skins. It examines a selection of these lost white tribes, including the Blancs Matignon of Guadeloupe, the Basters of Namibia and the Germans of Seaford Town, Jamaica. |
| Synopsis: |
Over three hundred years ago the first European colonialists set foot in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to found permanent outposts of the great empires. This epic migration continued until after World War II when these tropical outposts became independent black nations, and the white colonials were forced, or chose, to return home. Some of these colonial descendants, however, had become outcasts in the poorest stratas of the society of which they were now a part. Ignored by both the former slaves and the modern privileged white immigrants, and unable to afford the long journey home, they still hold out today, hiding in remote valleys and hills, 'lost white tribes' living in poverty with the proud myth of their colonial ancestors. Forced to marry within the tribe to retain their fair-skinned purity, they are torn between the memory of past privileges and the present need to integrate into the surrounding society. The tribes investigated in this book share much besides the colour of their skin: all are decreasing in number, many are on the verge of extinction, fighting to survive in countries that alienate them because of the colour of their skin. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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