03391nam 2200829 a 450 991081999050332120230207232911.01-78170-068-01-84779-135-210.7765/9781847791351(CKB)2560000000085639(EBL)1069536(OCoLC)818847236(SSID)ssj0000712834(PQKBManifestationID)12249044(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000712834(PQKBWorkID)10649333(PQKB)10874970(StDuBDS)EDZ0000086901(MiAaPQ)EBC1069536(Au-PeEL)EBL1069536(CaPaEBR)ebr10623364(CaONFJC)MIL843537(DE-B1597)660390(DE-B1597)9781847791351(EXLCZ)99256000000008563920121205d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRace and empire[electronic resource] eugenics in colonial Kenya /Chloe CampbellManchester Manchester University Press20071 online resource (225 p.)Studies in Imperialism ;107Studies in imperialismDescription based upon print version of record.0-7190-7161-5 0-7190-7160-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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;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 theStudies in ImperialismEugenicsKenyaBritishKenyaIntellectual lifeBritishKenyaAttitudesKenyaRace relationsHistory20th centuryKenyaSocial conditions20th century1930s.British colony.Kenya.colonial racial theories.eugenics.intelligence.political preoccupations.race.racial differences.settler.EugenicsBritishIntellectual life.BritishAttitudes.363.9209676209043NQ 9410rvkCampbell Chloe1645710MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819990503321Race and empire3992334UNINA