Imperialism as Diaspora
Title | Imperialism as Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Crane |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 161 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1846318963 |
Nearly all studies of British people living in India during the British Raj examine the population within the context of imperialism, neglecting the sense of displacement, discontinuity, and discomfort that comprised everyday life for Anglo-Indians. In Imperialism as Diaspora, Ralph Crane and Radhika Mohanram set out to understand the real lives of Anglo-Indians from a new, interdisciplinary stance. Moving seamlessly between literature, history, and art—and examining many forgotten works—they show how the lives of Anglo-Indians constituted an intersection of imperalist and diasporic forces, which created a unique set of cultural fissures that played out in issues of race, gender, religion, and power as colonial history progressed.
Global Diasporas in the Age of High Imperialism
Title | Global Diasporas in the Age of High Imperialism PDF eBook |
Author | Ulrike Kirchberger |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Emigration and immigration |
ISBN | 9783631739280 |
Global diasporas - Age of high imperialism - Japanese colonialism - German colonialism - Pan-African movement - Chinese nationalism - Khoja identity
Forging Diaspora
Title | Forging Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Andre Guridy |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807833614 |
Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank
Imperial Migrations
Title | Imperial Migrations PDF eBook |
Author | E. Morier-Genoud |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 351 |
Release | 2012-12-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137265000 |
This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.
Duvalier's Ghosts
Title | Duvalier's Ghosts PDF eBook |
Author | Jana Evans Braziel |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 2017-05-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813063132 |
"Urgently pursues those nameless ghosts of Haitians lost in the liminal space of the Black Atlantic."--New West Indian Guide "Foregrounds the experiences of refugees (particularly those refused asylum and detained in camps), the political mobilization of the diaspora in the United States, the ramifications of the policies and adjustment programmes imposed on Haiti by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and USAID."--Bulletin of Latin American Research "Theoretically sound and well researched. Braziel has written a compelling book on the literatures of post-Duvalier Haiti."--Millery Polyne, New York University "A very original study, a tour-de-force that crisscrosses the disciplinary boundaries typically separating the social sciences and the humanities. It is richly researched, beautifully written, and will surely attract much critical attention and praise."--Valerie Kaussen, University of Missouri From a position of urgent political engagement, this provocative book offers novel and compelling interpretations of several well-known Haitian-born authors, particularly regarding U.S. intervention in their homeland. Drawing on the diasporic cultural texts of several authors, such as Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferrière, Jana Evans Braziel examines how writers participate in transnational movements for global social justice. In their fictional works they discuss the United States’ many interventionist methods in Haiti, including surveillance, foreign aid, and military assistance. Through their work, they reveal that the majority of Haitians do not welcome these intrusions and actively criticize U.S. treatment of Haitians in both countries. Braziel encourages us to analyze the instability and violence of small nations like Haiti within the larger frame of international financial and military institutions and forms of imperialism. She forcefully argues that by reading these works as anti-imperialist, much can be learned about why Haitians and Haitian exiles often have negative perceptions of the U.S.
Between Colonialism and Diaspora
Title | Between Colonialism and Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Ballantyne |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2006-08-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822338246 |
A bold historical reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first.
Imperial White
Title | Imperial White PDF eBook |
Author | Radhika Mohanram |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1452913358 |
Radhika Mohanram shows not just how British imperial culture shaped the colonies, but how the imperial rule of colonies shifted—and gave new meanings to—what it meant to be British. Imperial White looks at literary, social, and cultural texts on the racialization of the British body and investigates British whiteness in the colonies to address such questions as: How was the whiteness in Britishness constructed by the presence of Empire? How was whiteness incorporated into the idea of masculinity? Does heterosexuality have a color? And does domestic race differ from colonial race? In addition to these inquiries on the issues of race, class, and sexuality, Mohanram effectively applies the methods of whiteness studies to British imperial material culture to critically racialize the relationship between the metropole and the peripheral colonies. Considering whether whiteness, like theory, can travel, Mohanram also provides a new perspective on white diaspora, a phenomenon of the nineteenth century that has been largely absent in diaspora studies, ultimately rereading—and rethinking—British imperial whiteness. Radhika Mohanram teaches postcolonial cultural studies in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, Wales. She is the author of Black Body: Women, Colonialism, Space (Minnesota, 1999) and edits the journal Social Semiotics.