Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa New York Review of Books academicians

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Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa New York Review of Books academiciansHow did South Africans become black? How did the idea of blackness influence conceptions of disadvantaged groups in England such as women and the poor, and vice versa? Bringing the Empire Home tracks colonial images of blackness from South Africa to England and back again to answer questions such as these. Before the mid 1800s, black Africans were considered savage to the extent that their plight mirrored England's internal Otherswomen, the poor, and