{"product_id":"unreasonable-histories-nativism-multiracial-lives-and-the-genealogical-imagination-in-british-africa-9780822357254","title":"Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Christopher J. Lee\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Africa - Central\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUnreasonable Histories\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, and oral testimony-Lee traces the emergence of Anglo-African, Euro-African, and Eurafrican subjectivities which constituted a grassroots Afro-Britishness that defied colonial categories of native and non-native. Discriminated against and often impoverished, these subaltern communities crafted a genealogical imagination that reconfigured kinship and racial descent to make political claims and generate affective meaning. But these critical histories equally confront a postcolonial reason that has occluded these experiences, highlighting uneven imperial legacies that still remain. Based on research in five countries, \u003ci\u003eUnreasonable Histories\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately revisits foundational questions in the field, to argue for the continent's diverse heritage and to redefine the meanings of being African in the past and present-and for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46497161740439,"sku":"9780822357254","price":4192.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822357254.webp?v=1769189023","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/unreasonable-histories-nativism-multiracial-lives-and-the-genealogical-imagination-in-british-africa-9780822357254","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}