Exclusion and Inclusion
Gradations of Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1914
©2007
Monographs
270 Pages
Series:
Cultural Identity Studies, Volume 6
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- 270
- Publication Year
- 2007
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783039110605
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Namibia Siedler Ausgrenzung Weiße Geschichte 1884-1914 Social Control Whiteness Hierarchy Colonialism Deutsche Social Privilege
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2007. 270 pp.
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