%0 Book
%A Robbie Aitken
%D 2007
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Exclusion and Inclusion
%B Gradations of Whiteness and Socio-Economic Engineering in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1914
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102453
%X This book sets out to examine the internal workings of a colonial settler society drawing on aspects of post-colonial theory and whiteness studies. It focuses on the construction of a hierarchical social order in German Southwest Africa in the period 1884-1914. In doing so it explores the historical creation of categories of race and the construction of a concept of whiteness within white settler society in Germany’s foremost settler colony. In the colonial environment the presence of some settlers was deemed to be more desirable than others. As a consequence policies of exclusion and racial rhetoric were employed to exclude undesirable settlers from white society. What emerged was a pioneer society in which undesirable settlers were socially, politically and economically excluded whilst desirable settlers sought to forge a racially and culturally exclusive utopia. Based on extensive archival material from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin as well as a wide range of printed sources, the book presents an insight into strategies of social control, power, the establishment of social privilege and constructions of whiteness in a settler society.
%K Namibia, Siedler, Ausgrenzung, Weiße, Geschichte 1884-1914, Social Control, Whiteness, Hierarchy, Colonialism, Deutsche, Social Privilege
%G English