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A 'Crisis of Whiteness' in the 'Heart of Darkness': Racism and the Congo Reform Movement
[phd thesis]
Abstract 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 hist... view more
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, the author 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'.... view less
Keywords
Congo, Republic of the; Central Africa; racism; colonialism; post-colonialism; social movement; reform; human rights; cultural history
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Free Keywords
Atrocities; Congo Reform Movement; History of Colonialism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
394 p.
Series
Kulturen der Gesellschaft, 45
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839454985
ISBN
978-3-8394-5498-5
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0