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The Souls of White Folk - White Settlers in Kenya, 1900s-1920s (Paperback)
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The Souls of White Folk - White Settlers in Kenya, 1900s-1920s (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and
condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers
or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as
caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment.
It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said,
how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the
settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: settlers
equated civilisation with a (hard to define) whiteness; they were
emotionally enriched through claims to paternalism and trusteeship
over Africans; they felt themselves constantly threatened by
Africans, by the state, and by the moral failures of other
settlers; and they daily enacted their claims to supremacy through
rituals of prestige, deference, humiliation and violence. The souls
of white folk will appeal to those interested in the histories of
Africa, colonialism, and race, and can be appreciated by scholars
and students alike. -- .
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