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050 00 $aDT16.W45$bG33 2018
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100 1 $aGabay, Clive,$eauthor.
245 10 $aImagining Africa :$bwhiteness and the Western gaze /$cClive Gabay.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom ;$aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2018.
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axii, 270 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aWhiteness, the Western gaze and Africa -- Finding anti-civilisation in Africa -- Native rights in colonial Kenya: the symbolism of Harry Thuku -- "Exploding Africa": of post-war modernisers and travellers -- The Age of Capricorn: bridging the past to the present -- Afropolitanism, and the White-Western incorporation of Africa -- Africa rising, Whiteness falling -- Making Whiteness strange.
520 8 $aThere has been a long history of idealism concerning the potential of economic and political developments in Africa, the latest iteration of which emerged around the time of the 2007-8 global financial crisis. Here, Clive Gabay takes a historical approach to questions concerning change and international order as these apply to Africa in Western imaginaries. Challenging traditional postcolonial accounts that see the West imagine itself as superior to Africa, he argues that the centrality of racial anxieties concerning white supremacy make Africa appear, at moments of Western crisis, as the saviour of Western ideals, specifically democracy, bureaucracy, and neoclassical economic order. Uncommonly, this book turns its lens as much inwards as outwards, interrogating how changing attitudes to Africa over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries correspond to shifting anxieties concerning whiteness, and the growing hope that Africa will be the place where the historical genius of whiteness might be saved and perpetuated.
650 0 $aWhites$xRace identity$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWhites$xRace identity$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xHistory$y21st century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
651 0 $aAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xRace relations.
651 0 $aAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xColonial influence.
650 7 $aBritish colonies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01910374
650 7 $aColonial influence.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01352432
650 7 $aRace relations.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01086509
650 7 $aWhites$xRace identity.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01174825
651 7 $aAfrica, Sub-Saharan.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01239520
648 7 $a1900-2099$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 $iebook version :$z9781108668880
852 00 $bglx$hDT16.W45$iG33 2018