{"product_id":"unreasonable-histories-nativism-multiracial-lives-and-the-genealogical-imagination-in-british-africa-9780822357131","title":"Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa","description":"In \u003ci\u003eUnreasonable Histories\u003c\/i\u003e, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa-contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia-from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of evidence-including organizational documents, court records, personal letters, commission reports, popular periodicals, photographs, and oral testimony-Lee traces the emergence of Anglo-African, Euro-African, and Eurafrican subjectivities which constituted a grassroots Afro-Britishness that defied colonial categories of native and non-native. Discriminated against and often impoverished, these subaltern communities crafted a genealogical imagination that reconfigured kinship and racial descent to make political claims and generate affective meaning. But these critical histories equally confront a postcolonial reason that has occluded these experiences, highlighting uneven imperial legacies that still remain. Based on research in five countries, \u003ci\u003eUnreasonable Histories\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately revisits foundational questions in the field, to argue for the continent's diverse heritage and to redefine the meanings of being African in the past and present-and for the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher J. Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.97w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822357131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristopher J. Lee is based at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40198623002739,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":96.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_28eb16a6-bdb5-4a31-8181-ff5e6f14bf2d.jpg?v=1656079397","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/unreasonable-histories-nativism-multiracial-lives-and-the-genealogical-imagination-in-british-africa-9780822357131","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}