LEADER 03956oam 2200733 c 450 001 9910563098303321 005 20220221094418.0 010 $a9783830986904 010 $a3830986904 024 3 $a9783830986904 035 $a(CKB)4910000000017698 035 $a(Waxmann)9783830986904 035 $a(ScCtBLL)9e40562c-ab5a-4a3f-912f-3690ee90fa2d 035 $a(EXLCZ)994910000000017698 100 $a20220221d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnunnnannuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPursuing Whiteness in the Colonies $ePrivate Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884-1914) /$fDiana Miryong Natermann 205 $a1st, New ed. 210 $aMu?nster$cWaxmann$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 225 0 $aHistorische Belgienforschung$v3 311 08$a9783830936909 311 08$a3830936907 330 $aPursuing 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. 330 1 $aPursuing 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 fu?r die: Forschungsstelle Hamburgs (post-)koloniales Erbe 330 1 $aDie feinfu?hlige Beachtung der Widerspru?che des allta?glichen 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 u?bersetzt von Ju?rgen Mu?ller) 410 $aHistorische Belgienforschung 606 $acolonies 606 $aegodocuments 606 $aGermany 606 $aSweden 606 $aBelgium 606 $acolonial history 606 $aAfrica 606 $aidentities 606 $aKongo 606 $aTansania 606 $aGender Studies 606 $apostcolonial theories 606 $a19./20. Jahrhundert 615 4$acolonies 615 4$aegodocuments 615 4$aGermany 615 4$aSweden 615 4$aBelgium 615 4$acolonial history 615 4$aAfrica 615 4$aidentities 615 4$aKongo 615 4$aTansania 615 4$aGender Studies 615 4$apostcolonial theories 615 4$a19./20. Jahrhundert 700 $aNatermann$b Diana Miryong$4aut$01223099 801 0$bWaxmann 801 1$bWaxmann 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910563098303321 996 $aPursuing Whiteness in the Colonies$92837299 997 $aUNINA