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Racial Crossings - Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Hardcover, New)
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Racial Crossings - Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different
races. Whether in sexual or domestic partnerships, in interracial
children, racially diverse communities or societies, these 'racial
crossings' were a lasting Victorian concern. But in an era of
imperial expansion, when slavery was abolished, colonial wars were
fought, and Britain itself was reformed, these concerns were more
than academic. In both the British empire and imperial Britain,
racial crossings shaped what people thought about race, the future,
the past, and the conduct and possibilities of empire. Victorian
fears of miscegenation and degeneration are well known; this study
turns to apparently opposite ideas where racial crossing was seen
as a means of improvement, a way of creating new societies, or a
mode for furthering the rule of law and the kingdom of Heaven.
Salesa explores how and why the preoccupation with racial crossings
came to be so important, so varied, and so widely shared through
the writings and experiences of a raft of participants: from
Victorian politicians and writers, to philanthropists and
scientists, to those at the razor's edge of empire - from soldiers,
missionaries, and settlers, to 'natives', 'half-castes' and other
colonized people. Anchored in the striking history of colonial New
Zealand, where the colonial policy of 'racial amalgamation' sought
to incorporate and intermarry settlers and New Zealand M=aori,
RacialCrossings examines colonial encounters, working closely with
indigenous ideas and experiences, to put Victorian racial practice
and thought into sharp, critical, relief.
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