A ›Crisis of Whiteness‹ in the ›Heart of Darkness‹
| Titel: | A ›Crisis of Whiteness‹ in the ›Heart of Darkness‹ : Racism and the Congo Reform Movement |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2020 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (396 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9783839454985 ; 9783839454985 ; 9783837654981 |
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The British and American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its >heroic< confrontation of colonial atrocities in the Congo Free State. Its commitment to white supremacy and colonial domination, however, continues to be overlooked, denied, or trivialised. This historical-sociological study argues that racism was the ideological cornerstone and formed the main agenda of this first major human rights campaign of the 20th century. Through a thorough analysis of contemporary sources, Felix Lösing unmasks the colonial and racist formation of the modern human rights discourse and investigates the >historical work< of racism at a crossroads between imperial power and >white crisis<.
