Racialised Masculinity and the Limits of Settlement: John Dunn and Natal, 1879–1883 (original) (raw)

From Boys to Gentlemen: Settler Masculinity in Colonial Natal 1880-1920, Robert Morrell

2003

BOOK REVIEWS 289 dissociation of archaeology and politics. The former group constituted the World Archaeological Congress (WAC), which met in Southampton in September 1986.6 The period post-1994 has seen a complex process of repositioning, which has included the resignation en mass of a group of cultural historical archaeologists from the University of Pretoria, the closing of one university department (Stellenbosch), and a shift in allegiance to the 'hard' sciences at another (the University of Cape Town). It has also seen the relatively uncritical adoption of aspects of the archaeological past by boosters of the African Renaissance, andcurrentlya fracas around the fate of an early colonial burial site in Cape Town which has split public opinion in the city.

De-settle the settler in Afrika and meet the man: Dispatches from Untimely Notes of a native son.

"How can he be considered great, since he has been a philosopher for so long and has never yet disturbed anybody? (Nietzsche in Untimely Meditations, p 194) "…it is only by means of the common characteristic of being German that we can avert the downfall of our nation which is threatened by its fusion with foreign people and win back again an individuality that is self-supporting and quite incapable of any dependence upon others" (Fichte in Addresses to the German Nation, p 4) A brief explanation regarding the seemingly clumsy title of these "notes"; this title is informed by a Garveyite attempt to marry Lorenzo Veracini's postulation (in a "radically" revised form)

Reformulating Identities: British Settlers in Early Nineteenth-Century South Africa

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1998

This paper examines the formation of a colonial identity among settlers from the British Isles who were relocated to the eastern frontier of the Cape Colony in 1820. It suggests that material aspirations united certain of the settlers in a political programme, and thus began the erosion of imported class (and other) divisions. However, it argues that their establishment as a capitalist colonial class is an insufficient explanation for their construction of a shared and emotive British settler identity. The settlers modified their inherited discourses of class, race, gender and nationality in order to forge solidarity, and the imperative for solidarity derived not so much from their mutual desire for accumulation, but from a corresponding collective insecurity. Not only were settlers afraid of Khoikhoi labour rebellion and Xhosa reprisals for land loss; they also feared abandonment by a seemingly unsympathetic metropole. Their aggressive capitalist endeavour, and collective fear of its destabilizing consequences, were two sides of the same coin, informing the development of a unifying social identity. The paper goes on to consider the mechanisms through which that identity was sustained, including acts of landscape representation, the textual generation of collective memory and the practice of communally binding, quotidian, gendered routines.

Smith. "Commissioning 'Founding Races' and Settler Colonial Narratives"

Canadian Ethnic Studies, Volume 46, Number 2, 2014, pp. 141-149, 2014

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Eve Haque’s pioneering work, Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework, invites us to think about royal commissions and the role that they play in politics, public policy and administration. But, uniquely, this book also reveals the central role of royal commissions in narrating a racial order and settler colonialism at pivotal times in Canadian history and politics. This important and timely study provides critical insights into Canadian debates on race, language, culture and, specifically, the intertwined concepts of multiculturalism and bilingualism. In this review I focus on two themes in Haque’s work in order to reflect upon the following: first, the role of royal commissions, and specifically, the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, in narrating the nation, a racial order, and settler colonialism; second, the use of contested concepts such as “founding races,” “other ethnic groups” and “newcomers” and the ways in which the B and B Commission attempted to stabilize and normalize these inherently unstable concepts and identities precisely at a time when they were losing their coherence. Finally, this review concludes with the urgent need to confront Canada’s colonial present and to decolonize white settler colonialism.

White, British, and European: historicising identity in settler societies

2009

He is the co-editor (with Katherine Ellinghaus and Jane Carey) of Reorienting whiteness (Palgrave, 2009) and is currently researching the relationship between historical writing, settler colonialism and political rights in the 19th-century British world. Jane Carey holds a Monash Fellowship at Monash University where her current research explores the politics of population in British settler colonies. She is the co-editor (with Katherine Ellinghaus and Leigh Boucher) of Reorienting whiteness (Palgrave, 2009) and has published articles in Gender and History and the Women's History Review.

‘A HAND PREPARED TO BE RED’ : MANLINESS AND RACIAL VIOLENCE ON BRITAIN’S COLONIAL FRONTIERS

On the frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia in the mid-nineteenth century violence was endemic. Imbued with definite ideas of manliness and with ambivalent attitudes towards the use of violence, British male immigrants to these frontiers found an environment free of the constraints that operated in metropolitan Britain. In these circumstances, many of the manly virtues held the potential for violence. In contrast to the espoused values of Christian reason, self-restraint, honour and rectitude, on the colonial frontier the practice of manliness often entailed violence and manly ethos could be distorted to justify and legitimise violent acts.

Tales of Color and Colonialism: Racial Realism and Settler Colonial Theory

Florida A. & M. University Law Review, 2015

More than a half-century after the Civil Rights Era, people of color remain disproportionately impoverished and incarcerated, excluded and vulnerable. Legal remedies rooted in the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection remain elusive. This article argues that the “racial realism” advocated by the late Professor Derrick Bell compels us to look critically at the purposes served by racial hierarchy. By stepping outside the master narrative’s depiction of the United States as a “nation of immigrants” with opportunity for all, we can recognize it as a settler state, much like Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It could not exist without the occupation of indigenous lands, and those lands could not be rendered profitable without imported labor. Employing settler colonial theory, this article identifies some of the strategies of elimination and/or subordination that have been — and continue to be — used to subordinate Indigenous peoples, Afrodescendants, and migrants of color in ord...