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A ›Crisis of Whiteness‹ in the ›Heart of Darkness‹ : Racism and the Congo Reform Movement
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ISBN: 9783837654981 3839454980 9783839454985 3837654982 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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The British and American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its ›heroic‹ confrontation of colonial atrocities in the Congo Free State. Its commitment to white supremacy and colonial domination, however, continues to be overlooked, denied, or trivialised. This historical-sociological study argues that racism was the ideological cornerstone and formed the main agenda of this first major human rights campaign of the 20th century. Through a thorough analysis of contemporary sources, Felix Lösing unmasks the colonial and racist formation of the modern human rights discourse and investigates the ›historical work‹ of racism at a crossroads between imperial power and ›white crisis‹.


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Global photographies : memory - history - archives
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ISBN: 9783837630060 9783839430064 3839430062 3837630064 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bielefeld: Transcript,

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Long description: How is photography connected to global practices?This is a first edited collection to trace the relationship between history, photography and memory in a global perspective on three interrelated levels: firstly, in the artistic and cultural production of pictures, secondly, in the decoding of colonial and contemporary photography, and thirdly, in collecting photographs in picture archives dealing with colonial and anthropological photography. The contributions sketch the contested field of (post- )colonial photography and trace the manifold intertwinements between historical and contemporary photographs. Biographical note: Sissy Helff teaches at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/M. in the department of New English Literatures. Her most recent publications include her monograph>>Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women' s Fiction of the Diaspora<<(2012) as well as several coedited volumes. She currently works on a book dealing with the image of the refugee in the British writing and a collection of essays dealing with Alice in Wonderland adaptations. Stefanie Michels is professor for history at the University of Düsseldorf. She has dealt with postcolonial readings of photographies about colonial Black German soldiers in a German-langugage monograph in 2009 (>>Schwarze deutsche Kolonialsoldaten. Mehrdeutige Repräsentationsräume und früher Kosmopolitismus<<, trancript) alongside a number of articles on photography and German colonialism

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