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By Christopher J. Lee
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 01 January 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7637-8
... Racism racial descent kinship genealogy Nyasaland Malawi ...
Book Chapter

By Christopher J. Lee
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 01 January 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7637-8
... colonial law racial descent native status non-native status cultural lifestyle ...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376378-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7637-8
... 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. Racism racial descent kinship genealogy Nyasaland Malawi ...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376378-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7637-8
... This chapter focuses on the legal status of multiracial people in British Central Africa and how they challenged categories of native and non-native by fitting into neither. colonial law racial descent native status non-native status cultural lifestyle ...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376378-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7637-8
... 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. Racism racial descent...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376378-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7637-8
...Non-Native Questions<subtitle>Genealogical States and Colonial Bare Life</subtitle> This chapter focuses on the legal status of multiracial people in British Central Africa and how they challenged categories of native and non-native by fitting into neither. colonial law racial descent...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 27 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024507-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2450-7
... Chapter 1 disrupts the overwhelming focus on the white/Black binary that helped structure the systems of racial classification, segregation, and discrimination in South Africa. The chapter explores legal and missionary documents, government papers, and census records beginning in 1865 until...
Published: 01 January 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7609-5
... of China’s shift towards capitalism, it was China’s actions in Africa that unambiguously demonstrated its decline as a leader of anti-imperial Third World struggle and the end of its racial claims towards groups of African descent. Sino-American Rapprochement Sino-African relations Angolan...
Series: Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
Published: 01 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059165-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5916-5
... and European descent working with racial subject matter in the United States of the twentieth century. This essay focuses on Johnson's love of music and his fascination with poet Gertrude Stein's opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Gertrude Stein music Catholicism prints ...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 04 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376156-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7615-6
... programs, and newspaper supplements. With few exceptions, these narratives minimized the role of people of African descent and northeastern migrants, while celebrating the contributions of European and Japanese immigrants. They also identified São Paulo not just as the most modern region of Brazil...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 20 October 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2714-0
... that characterized the lives of enslaved people of African descent in the United States alongside entanglement as an aspect of theoretical physics. The impossibility of marriage for so many—including the ritualized reductions of marriage to broom jumping during slavery—is evaluated as a parallel to the impossibility...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 26 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059424-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5942-4
... about Freemasonry prior to his friendship with the Boston abolitionist and Masonic leader Prince Hall. This chapter argues that New World developments alone cannot account for the adoption of Freemasonry by persons of African descent. Striking similarities and multiple points of correspondence—including...
Series: Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas
Published: 01 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059165-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5916-5
... descent working with racial subject matter in the United States of the twentieth century. This essay focuses on Johnson's love of music and his fascination with poet Gertrude Stein's opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Gertrude Stein music Catholicism prints In the mid-1930s, painter Norman...
Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 04 February 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7615-6
... constructions of São Paulo’s history that emerged during the IV Centenário, including the elaborate Historical Exposition in the newly inaugurated Ibirapuera Park, popular radio programs, and newspaper supplements. With few exceptions, these narratives minimized the role of people of African descent...