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Autore: | Campbell Chloe |
Titolo: | Race and empire [[electronic resource] ] : eugenics in colonial Kenya / / Chloe Campbell |
Pubblicazione: | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.9209676209043 |
Soggetto topico: | Eugenics - Kenya |
British - Kenya - Intellectual life | |
British - Kenya - Attitudes | |
Soggetto geografico: | Kenya Race relations History 20th century |
Kenya Social conditions 20th century | |
Soggetto non controllato: | 1930s |
British colony | |
Kenya | |
colonial racial theories | |
eugenics | |
intelligence | |
political preoccupations | |
race | |
racial differences | |
settler | |
Classificazione: | NQ 9410 |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Race and empire |
ISBN: | 1-78170-068-0 |
1-84779-135-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791738403321 |
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