Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town
Nineteenth-century Cape Town, the capital of the British Cape Colony, was conventionally regarded as a liberal oasis in an otherwise racist South Africa. Longstanding British influence was thought to mitigate the racism of the Dutch settlers and foster the development of a sophisticated and colour-blind English merchant class. Vivian Bickford-Smith skilfully interweaves political, economic and social analysis to show that the English merchant class, far from being liberal, were generally as racist as Afrikaner farmers. Theirs was, however, a peculiarly English discourse of race, mobilised around a 'Clean Party' obsessed with sanitation and th…
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Weitere Autoren: Anderson, David (Hrsg.) / Brown, Carolyn (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-52639-5
- EAN: 9780521526395
- Produktnummer: 9724665
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 482 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 482
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