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| Title: | Pursuing whiteness in the colonies: private memories from the Congo Free State and German East Africa (1884-1914) |
| Author: | Natermann, Diana Miryong |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Pages: | 269 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historische Belgienforschung; 3 |
| City of publisher: | Münster |
| Publisher: | Waxmann |
| ISBN: | 9783830936909; 3830936907 |
| Geographic terms: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) East Africa German East Africa |
| Subjects: | imperialism race relations images |
| Abstract: | The author presents how colonisers constructed their whiteness in relation to the subalterns in everyday situations connected to friendship, animals, gender and food. White culture was often practiced to maintain the idea of European supremacy, for example by upholding white dining cultures. The welcoming notion of 'breaking bread' was replaced by a dining culture that reinforced white identity and segregated white from non-white people. |
