Long Shadow of the British Empire
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9781137013088 |
| Open Library | OL25703735W |
| Total publications | 6 |
| Coverage period | 2011 - 2012 |
| Language | EN |
The Long Shadow of the British Empire explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, the associations they created from these social interactions, and the enduring legacies of their relationships. Its examines the centrality of gender and social identity in the formation of non-western people in the Britsh Empire more generally and Northern Rhodesia specifically. Combining anthropological and autoethnographical historical methods, it describes the social, economic, political, and educational disadvantages Eurafricans-more commonly known as "Coloured" in Zambia-were subjected to on account of their mixed heritage and the legacies of these racist practices in their present-day lives
Imperial Networks in a Transnational Context
I remember, as a child, hearing my grandfather Stephen Broomfield describe himself as a musungu half-caste, 1 “white, half white and half black.” My grandfather emphasized his white British genealogy, thus dissociating himself from his African ancestry and more importantly from the harsh discriminatory policies and practices that specifically targeted Africans in Northern Rhodesia, where Africans could not travel freely within towns and even with…
Coloureds’ Status in Northern Rhodesia
I n the years following the East Africa Governors’ Conference in Nairobi in 1933, the questions surrounding half-castes’ status in the British Empire in East and Central Africa remained largely unresolved. Periodically, officials in Britain’s African colonies and dependencies, and in London, returned to the question about half-castes’ status in British Imperial Africa. Nonetheless, one of the outcomes of the transnational debates centering on hal…
White Men’s Visitations
I was born into a Coloured family in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia on September 18, 1961. My birthdate is a historical one in Zambia: it was the day Dag Hammarskjold, the secretary-general of the United Nations, died under suspicious circumstances in a plane crash on the outskirts of Ndola, just over an hour’s drive away from Kitwe, where my mother lay in hospital with her newborn daughter. 1 At the time of his death, the secretary-general was in the …
Bodily Inscriptions and Colonial Legitimizations
I n the late 1980s, in Zambia, I befriended a young Englishman and one night I invited him to a party in my hometown of Chingola. Most of the guests at the party were Coloured people. My new friend expressed surprise that such a large crowd of people knew each other intimately. In the course of the evening, he asked me how this came to be. I explained to him our African and European origins and how these had ensured our social segregation and ali…
To Be or Not to Be
F rom the 1950s, we begin to see white officials’ aggressive advancements to impose Colouredness as a distinct racial categorization in Northern Rhodesia, as well as Eurafricans’ progressive adoption of Colouredness as an ethnic identity to make cultural and political distinctions between themselves and Northern Rhodesia’s European, African, and Indian communities. Despite white officials’ and Eurafrican people’s cultural and political grappling,…
The Long Shadow of the British Empire
The Long Shadow of the British Empire explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, the associations they created from these social interactions, and the enduring legacies of their relationships. Its examines the centrality of gender and social identity in the formation of non-western people in the Britsh Empire more generally and Northern Rhodesia specifically.…
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The Long Shadow of the British Empire
The Long Shadow of the British Empire explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and classrooms, the associations they created from these social interactions, and the enduring legacies of their relationships. Its examines the centrality of gender and social identity in the formation of non-western people in the Britsh Empire more generally and Northern Rhodesia specifically.…
Imperial Networks in a Transnational Context
I remember, as a child, hearing my grandfather Stephen Broomfield describe himself as a musungu half-caste, 1 “white, half white and half black.” My grandfather emphasized his white British genealogy, thus dissociating himself from his African ancestry and more importantly from the harsh discriminatory policies and practices that specifically targeted Africans in Northern Rhodesia, where Africans could not travel freely within towns and even with…
Coloureds’ Status in Northern Rhodesia
I n the years following the East Africa Governors’ Conference in Nairobi in 1933, the questions surrounding half-castes’ status in the British Empire in East and Central Africa remained largely unresolved. Periodically, officials in Britain’s African colonies and dependencies, and in London, returned to the question about half-castes’ status in British Imperial Africa. Nonetheless, one of the outcomes of the transnational debates centering on hal…
White Men’s Visitations
I was born into a Coloured family in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia on September 18, 1961. My birthdate is a historical one in Zambia: it was the day Dag Hammarskjold, the secretary-general of the United Nations, died under suspicious circumstances in a plane crash on the outskirts of Ndola, just over an hour’s drive away from Kitwe, where my mother lay in hospital with her newborn daughter. 1 At the time of his death, the secretary-general was in the …
Bodily Inscriptions and Colonial Legitimizations
I n the late 1980s, in Zambia, I befriended a young Englishman and one night I invited him to a party in my hometown of Chingola. Most of the guests at the party were Coloured people. My new friend expressed surprise that such a large crowd of people knew each other intimately. In the course of the evening, he asked me how this came to be. I explained to him our African and European origins and how these had ensured our social segregation and ali…
To Be or Not to Be
F rom the 1950s, we begin to see white officials’ aggressive advancements to impose Colouredness as a distinct racial categorization in Northern Rhodesia, as well as Eurafricans’ progressive adoption of Colouredness as an ethnic identity to make cultural and political distinctions between themselves and Northern Rhodesia’s European, African, and Indian communities. Despite white officials’ and Eurafrican people’s cultural and political grappling,…