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Radical Perspectives
Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7637-8
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
Racism as a Weapon of the Weak
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Published:January 2015
This chapter looks at how multiracial people in Nyasaland (contemporary Malawi) became politically active during the 1920s and 1930s, making demands upon the British colonial state by citing affective connections of kinship and responsibility. Furthermore, racism (through discrimination toward other communities and through citing common racial descent through family) was employed as a “weapon of the weak” to gain colonial favor over other communities.
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