Author: Luise White
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-03-23
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 022623519X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A truly satisfactory history of Rhodesia, one that takes into account both the African history and that of the whites, has never been written. That is, until now. In this book Luise White highlights the crucial tension between Rhodesia as it imagined itself and Rhodesia as it was imagined outside the country. Using official documents, novels, memoirs, and conversations with participants in the events taking place between 1965, when Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence from Britain, and 1980 when indigenous African rule was established through the creation of the state of Zimbabwe, White reveals that Rhodesians represented their state as a kind of utopian place where white people dared to stand up for themselves and did what needed to be done. It was imagined to be a place vastly better than the decolonized dystopias to its north. In all these representations, race trumped all else including any notion of nation. Outside Rhodesia, on the other hand, it was considered a white supremacist utopia, a country that had taken its own independence rather than let white people live under black rule. Even as Rhodesia edged toward majority rule to end international sanctions and a protracted guerilla war, racialized notions of citizenship persisted. One man, one vote, became the natural logic of decolonization of this illegally independent minority-ruled renegade state. Voter qualification with its minutia of which income was equivalent to how many years of schooling, and how African incomes or years of schooling could be rendered equivalent to whites, illustrated the core of ideas about, and experiences of, racial domination. White s account of the politics of decolonization in this unprecedented historical situation reveals much about the general processes occurring elsewhere on the African continent."
Author: L. H. Gann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780521078597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.
Author: Yvette Scheven
Publisher: London ; New York : H. Zell Publishers
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 650
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotated bibliography of bibliographys and similar publications concerning Africa.