Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 214 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-8477-9135-1
,
978-1-8477-9631-8
,
978-1-78170-068-6
Series Statement:
Studies in imperialism
Content:
'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 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century
Note:
Acknowledgments -- 1. Nellie's Dance -- 2. British eugenics, race and empire -- The British eugenics movement -- Race and empire -- Eugenics and Kenya Colony -- 3. Kenyan medical discourse and eugenics -- Eugenic research on the African frontier: Dr Gordon and Dr Vint -- The medical leaders and eugenic discourse in the EAMJ -- 4. Metropolitan responses -- -- The response of the Eugenics Society -- Race and intelligence in the British press -- Official interpretations -- 5. Settler attitudes to eugenics and race -- The Kenya Society for the Study of Race Improvement -- Eugenics and settler politics -- Self-government, climate and Closer Union -- African education -- Officials and the eugenic research -- 6. Biology, development and welfare -- Oliver and 'The General Intelligence Test for Africans -- Juvenile delinquency and Kabete Reformatory -- Mathari Mental Hospital, criminal lunacy and criminal responsibility -- 7. Conclusion: the decline of the eugenics empire -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-7190-7160-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Eugenik
DOI:
10.7765/9781847791351
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Manchester scholarship online
URL:
Manchester scholarship online
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
