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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819990503321

Autore

Campbell Chloe

Titolo

Race and empire [[electronic resource] ] : eugenics in colonial Kenya / / Chloe Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-78170-068-0

1-84779-135-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Studies in Imperialism ; ; 107

Studies in imperialism

Classificazione

NQ 9410

Disciplina

363.9209676209043

Soggetti

Eugenics - Kenya

British - Kenya - Intellectual life

British - Kenya - Attitudes

Kenya Race relations History 20th century

Kenya Social conditions 20th century

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; General editor's introduction; 1 Introduction: Nellie's dance; 2 British eugenics, empire and race; 3 Kenyan medical discourse and eugenics; 4 Metropolitan responses; 5 Settler attitudes to eugenics and race; 6 Biology, development and welfare; 7 Conclusion: the decline of the eugenics empire; Abbreviations in notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Race and empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930's, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. The Kenyan eugenics movement of the 1930's adapted British ideas to the colonial environment: in all its extremity, Kenyan eugenics was not simply a bizarre and embarrassing colonial mutation, as it was later dismissed, but a logical extension of British eugenics in a colonial context. By tracing the