Imperial White: Race, Diaspora, and the British Empire

by Radhika Mohanram

Book Overview

Radhika Mohanram shows not just how British imperial culture shaped the colonies, but how the imperial rule of colonies shifted--and gave new meanings to--what it meant to be British.

Imperial White looks at literary, social, and cultural texts on the racialization of the British body and investigates British whiteness in the colonies to address such questions as: How was the whiteness in Britishness constructed by the presence of Empire?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816647801
• ISBN13: 9780816647804
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"