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OverviewKenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: settlers equated civilisation with a (hard to define) whiteness; they were emotionally enriched through claims to paternalism and trusteeship over Africans; they felt themselves constantly threatened by Africans, by the state, and by the moral failures of other settlers; and they daily enacted their claims to supremacy through rituals of prestige, deference, humiliation and violence. The souls of white folk will appeal to those interested in the histories of Africa, colonialism, and race, and can be appreciated by scholars and students alike. -- . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brett Shadle , Andrew Thompson , John MacKenzie , Rebecca MortimerPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780719095344ISBN 10: 0719095344 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 01 March 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews'Kenya's settlers are too often stereotyped as either brutal racist parasites or bold, high-spirited, pioneers of civilisation. This book tells of real lives, of the deep insecurities of a dominant colonial minority and the contradictions between genuinely benevolent paternalism and a vivid fear of African savagery.' John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge 'Brett Shadle has with The Souls of White Folk achieved an extraordinary book. His engaging prose makes it both a smart and entertaining reading.' Norman Aselmeyer, H-Net December 2016 -- . 'Kenya's settlers are too often stereotyped as either brutal racist parasites or bold, high-spirited, pioneers of civilisation. This book tells of real lives, of the deep insecurities of a dominant colonial minority and the contradictions between genuinely benevolent paternalism and a vivid fear of African savagery.' John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge 'Brett Shadle has with The Souls of White Folk achieved an extraordinary book. His engaging prose makes it both a smart and entertaining reading.' H-Net December 2016 -- . 'Kenya's settlers are too often stereotyped as either brutal racist parasites or bold, high-spirited, pioneers of civilisation. This book tells of real lives, of the deep insecurities of a dominant colonial minority and the contradictions between genuinely benevolent paternalism and a vivid fear of African savagery. Their only defence against the African majority was prestige , a veil of superiority. Tear it away and white settlement would be lost. Sex was the weakest point. White men had physical needs that could be allowed to enjoy black flesh. White women were different, on a higher plane, not so much sexual as moral beings. For them to sleep with a black man breached the tender inner citadel of white superiority: it was the black peril, an assertion of racial equality, a capital crime. The book leads inexorably to the first execution of an African for raping a white woman, in 1928, after a quarter century of Kenya's colonial history.' John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge -- . 'Kenya's settlers are too often stereotyped as either brutal racist parasites or bold, high-spirited, pioneers of civilisation. This book tells of real lives, of the deep insecurities of a dominant colonial minority and the contradictions between genuinely benevolent paternalism and a vivid fear of African savagery.' John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge 'Brett Shadle has with The Souls of White Folk achieved an extraordinary book. His engaging prose makes it both a smart and entertaining reading.' Norman Aselmeyer, H-Net December 2016 'It does, however, dig deep, and it addresses two vital questions: who did settlers think they were? and why did they think and act as they did? Both these questions, especially when situated within the wider frame of ethnicity, have important comparative dimensions that a close reading of Souls reveals.' Richard Waller, Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, ASR Vol 59, No 3 -- . Author InformationBrett Shadle is Associate Professor of History and ASPECT at at Virginia Tech Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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