Lee, Christopher J.

Unreasonable histories : nativism, multiracial lives, and the genealogical imagination in British Africa / Christopher J. Lee. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (365 p.) : ill.. - Radical perspectives .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Idioms of place and history -- Adaima's story -- Coming of age -- The native undefined -- Commissions and circumvention -- Racism as a weapon of the weak -- Loyalty and disregard -- Urbanization and spatial belonging.

9780822376378 (ebook)


Racially mixed people--History.--Africa


Great Britain--Colonies--Administration.--Africa
Great Britain--Colonies--Race relations.