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Unreasonable Histories - Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Hardcover)
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Unreasonable Histories - Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Radical Perspectives
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In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the
parameters and content of African studies as currently understood.
At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in
British Central Africa-contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and
Zambia-from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of
evidence-including organizational documents, court records,
personal letters, commission reports, popular periodicals,
photographs, and oral testimony-Lee traces the emergence of
Anglo-African, Euro-African, and Eurafrican subjectivities which
constituted a grassroots Afro-Britishness that defied colonial
categories of native and non-native. Discriminated against and
often impoverished, these subaltern communities crafted a
genealogical imagination that reconfigured kinship and racial
descent to make political claims and generate affective meaning.
But these critical histories equally confront a postcolonial reason
that has occluded these experiences, highlighting uneven imperial
legacies that still remain. Based on research in five countries,
Unreasonable Histories ultimately revisits foundational questions
in the field, to argue for the continent's diverse heritage and to
redefine the meanings of being African in the past and present-and
for the future.
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