03991oam 2200745 c 450 991056309830332120251102090541.0978383098690438309869049783830986904(CKB)4910000000017698(Waxmann)9783830986904(ScCtBLL)9e40562c-ab5a-4a3f-912f-3690ee90fa2d(oapen)doab81512(EXLCZ)99491000000001769820251102d2018 uy 0engurnnunnnannuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPursuing Whiteness in the Colonies Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914) /Diana Miryong Natermann1st, New ed.MünsterWaxmann20181 online resource (270 p.)Historische Belgienforschung39783830936909 3830936907 Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Africa. The transcolonial approach is based on egodocuments from Belgian, German and Swedish men and women who migrated to Central Africa for reasons like a love for adventure, social betterment, new gender roles, or the conviction that colonising was their patriotic duty. 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(l) 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. By combining colonial history with whiteness studies in an African setting the author provides a different understanding of imperial realities as they were experienced by colonisers in situ.Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. [...] By combining colonial history with whiteness studies in an African setting the author provides a different understanding of imperial realities as they were experienced by colonisers in situ. – Caroline Herfert für die: Forschungsstelle Hamburgs (post-)koloniales ErbeDie feinfühlige Beachtung der Widersprüche des alltäglichen Lebens jenseits der Verallgemeinerungen der Gesellschaftsanalyse verleiht dieser gut belegten Darstellung eine sehr nuancierte Dimension. – Jean-Luc Vellut, in: Historische Zeitschrift 309 (2019), S. 521f. (Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Jürgen Müller)Historische BelgienforschungcoloniesegodocumentsGermanySwedenBelgiumcolonial historyAfricaidentitiesKongoTansaniaGender Studiespostcolonial theories19./20. JahrhundertcoloniesegodocumentsGermanySwedenBelgiumcolonial historyAfricaidentitiesKongoTansaniaGender Studiespostcolonial theories19./20. JahrhundertNatermann Diana Miryongaut1223099WaxmannWaxmannBOOK9910563098303321Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies2837299UNINA