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Unpopular Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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Unpopular Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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In 1965 the white minority government of Rhodesia (known after 1980
as Zimbabwe) issued a unilateral declaration of independence from
Britain, rather than negotiate a transition to majority rule. In
doing so, Rhodesia became the exception, if not anathema, to the
policies and practices of the end of empire. In Unpopular
Sovereignty, Luise White shows that the exception that was
Rhodesian independence did not, in fact, make the state that
different from new nations elsewhere in Africa: indeed, this
history of Rhodesian political practices reveals some of the
commonalities of mid-twentieth-century thinking about place and
race and how much government should link the two. White locates
Rhodesia's independence in the era of decolonization in Africa, a
time of great intellectual ferment in ideas about race,
citizenship, and freedom. She shows that racists and reactionaries
were just as concerned with questions of sovereignty and legitimacy
as African nationalists were and took special care to design voter
qualifications that could preserve their version of legal
statecraft. Examining how the Rhodesian state managed its own
governance and electoral politics, she casts an oblique and
revealing light by which to rethink the narratives of
decolonization.
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