Contesting whiteness: Race, nationalism and British Empire exhibitions between the wars
by Hughes, Deborah, Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, 2008, 262 pages; 3314795

Abstract:

This study examines how various actors used the British Empire exhibitions of the interwar period to contest the privileges of whiteness found throughout the empire, demonstrating that imperial race relations were profoundly situational, even when focused on the maintenance of privilege. It attempts to outline multiple racial and national identities and traces how these identities were articulated and maneuvered through a transnational discourse on national self-determination. It thus exposes the contingencies of imperial race relations in the years between the world wars by taking up multiple sites of empire for consideration and identifying how transnational issues shaped a particularly imperial exhibitionary complex.

 
AdviserAntoinette Burton
SchoolUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
SourceDAI/A 69-05, p. , Sep 2008
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsAfrican history; European history; Modern history
Publication Number3314795
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