Bringing the Empire home: race, class, and gender in Britain and colonial South Africa.(Book Review)

MAGUBANE, ZINE. Bringing the Empire home: race, class, and gender in Britain and colonial South Africa. 222 pp., bibliogr. London, Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 2004. [pounds sterling]13.00 (paper)

This book is a dextrous and innovative survey of the articulations between discourses of race, class, and gender in South Africa and Britain during the nineteenth century. Rather than just remarking upon parallels and contrasts in the ways that these axes of differentiation were represented in the two sites, the focus is on the way in which discourses travelled between them, constituting ...

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