Contesting Whiteness: Race, Nationalism and British Empire Exhibitions Between the Wars
Hughes, Deborah
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Description
Title
Contesting Whiteness: Race, Nationalism and British Empire Exhibitions Between the Wars
Author(s)
Hughes, Deborah
Issue Date
2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Burton, Antoinette M.
Department of Study
History
Discipline
History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, African
Language
eng
Abstract
This study examines how various actors used the British Empire exhibitions of the interwar period to contest the privileges of whiteness found throughout the empire, demonstrating that imperial race relations were profoundly situational, even when focused on the maintenance of privilege. It attempts to outline multiple racial and national identities and traces how these identities were articulated and maneuvered through a transnational discourse on national self-determination. It thus exposes the contingencies of imperial race relations in the years between the world wars by taking up multiple sites of empire for consideration and identifying how transnational issues shaped a particularly imperial exhibitionary complex.
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