Imperial white: race, diaspora and the British Empire

Mohanram, Radhika ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4243-2509 2007. Imperial white: race, diaspora and the British Empire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Authored Book
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:	9780816647798
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Last Modified:	17 Oct 2022 09:35
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/3724

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