[Peace] Fwd: March 30th- "Meet the Author Series": Zine Magubane/Bringing the Empire Home

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:11:59 -0600
>To: kumi silva <kumis at uiuc.edu>
>From: African Studies <kumis at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: March 30th- "Meet the Author Series": Zine Magubane/Bringing
>   the Empire Home
>
>Please circulate widely - Thank you!
>
>CENTER FOR AFRICAN STUDIES
>SPRING EVENTS 2004
>
>MARCH “MEET THE AUTHOR” SERIES
>Noon-1 p.m, Illini Union Bookstore - Authors Corner - Second Floor
>809 S. Wright Street, Champaign, IL 61820
>
>TUESDAY,  MARCH 30th   
>
>Zine Magubane
>  Bringing the Empire Home
>Chicago: University of Chicago Press
>
>How did South Africans become black? How did the 
>idea of blackness influence conceptions of 
>disadvantaged groups in England such as women 
>and the poor, and vice versa? Bringing the 
>Empire Home tracks colonial images of blackness 
>from South Africa to England and back again to 
>answer questions such as these. Before the 
>mid-1800s, black Africans were considered savage 
>to the extent that their plight mirrored 
>England's internal Otherswomen, the poor, and 
>the Irish. By the 1900s, England's minority 
>groups were being defined in relation to 
>stereotypes of black South Africans. These 
>stereotypes, in turn, were used to justify both 
>new capitalist class and gender hierarchies in 
>England and the subhuman treatment of blacks in 
>South Africa. Bearing this in mind, Zine 
>Magubane considers how marginalized groups in 
>both countries responded to these racialized 
>representations.  Revealing the often overlooked 
>links among ideologies of race, class, and 
>gender, Bringing the Empire Home demonstrates 
>how much black Africans taught the English about 
>what it meant to be white, poor, or female.
>
>LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED


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Al Kagan
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University of Illinois Library
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