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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778343003321

Autore

Mohanram Radhika

Titolo

Imperial white [[electronic resource] ] : race, diaspora, and the British Empire / / Radhika Mohanram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press

Bristol, : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2007

ISBN

0-8166-5382-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

305.8210171241

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Great Britain - Colonies - History - 19th century

Ethnicity - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Sex role - Great Britain - Colonies - History - 19th century

Sex role - Great Britain - History - 19th century

White people - Race identity - Great Britain - Colonies - History - 19th century

White people - Race identity - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Great Britain Colonies Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. In the metropole.  White masculinity : playing rugby and the Sepoy Mutiny -- The whiteness of women : in theory and under lock and key -- Victoria's secret : the history of white sexuality -- pt. 2. In the south.  White water : race and oceans down under -- Mourning and melancholia : the wages of whiteness -- Dermographia : how the Irish became white in India -- Epilogue : Europe as an other.

Sommario/riassunto

Radhika Mohanram shows not just how British imperial culture shaped the colonies but how the imperial rule of colonies gave new meanings to what it meant to be British. Considering whether whiteness, like theory, can travel, Mohanram also provides a new perspective on white diaspora, a phenomenon of the nineteenth century that has been largely absent in diaspora studies, ultimately rethinking British imperial whiteness.