TY - BOOK ID - 138687081 TI - Race and empire : eugenics in colonial Kenya PY - 2007 SN - 1781700680 1847791352 9781847791351 9781781700686 9780719071607 0719071607 9780719071614 0719071615 PB - Manchester : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Eugenics KW - British KW - Intellectual life. KW - Attitudes. KW - Geschichte 1930-1939. KW - Kenya KW - Race relations KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - 1930s. KW - British colony. KW - Kenya. KW - colonial racial theories. KW - eugenics. KW - intelligence. KW - political preoccupations. KW - race. KW - racial differences. KW - settler. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138687081 AB - Race and empire tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930's, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. The Kenyan eugenics movement of the 1930's adapted British ideas to the colonial environment: in all its extremity, Kenyan eugenics was not simply a bizarre and embarrassing colonial mutation, as it was later dismissed, but a logical extension of British eugenics in a colonial context. By tracing the ER -