Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa

by Christopher J. Lee

Book Overview

In Unreasonable Histories, 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357259
• ISBN13: 9780822357254
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"