{"id":17288,"date":"2011-10-26T03:24:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T03:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17288"},"modified":"2015-01-08T19:11:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:11:37","slug":"the-threat-of-%e2%80%98woolly-haired-grandchildren%e2%80%99-race-the-colonial-family-and-german-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17288","title":{"rendered":"The threat of \u2018woolly-haired grandchildren\u2019: Race, the colonial family and German nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The threat of \u2018woolly-haired grandchildren\u2019: Race, the colonial family and German nationalism<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The History of the Family<\/a>
\nVolume 14, Issue 4<\/a> (2009-10-26)
\nThe Domestic Frontier: European Colonialism, Nationalism and the Family
\nPages 356-368
\nDOI: 10.1016\/j.hisfam.2009.08.002<\/a><\/p>\n

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in International History
\nFlinders University, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n

The German colonial world was marked by an ostensibly self-evident boundary between the white ruler and the black ruled that situated Europeans and indigenous peoples as diametrically opposed and socially discrete. This situation, however, was problematised by the gendered and sexualised interactions between European and indigenous society. The result was often a slippage between the administrative attempts to create recognisably \u2018German\u2019 families (perceived in racial terms), and the antinomian realities of human relationships that transgressed racial lines. This in turn gave rise to reproductive anxieties in the face of a new liminal population of \u2018half-castes<\/a>\u2019 (Mischlinge<\/em>) that refused the white\u2013black, master\u2013slave dialectic of the colonial ideal. Many historians have recently attempted to link the troubled history of race relations in German Southwest Africa<\/a> to the later history of Nazi anti-Semitism and genocide, by focusing on the apparent continuities between the Holocaust<\/a> and the Herero\u2013Nama wars<\/a>. However, an alternative genealogy for the cthat refutes this genocidal continuity thesis is possible through an investigation of the origins and contents of the debates about the nature of the German colonial family and its relationship to German citizenship between 1904 and 1914.<\/p>\n

Article Outline<\/strong>
\n1. Introduction: narrating the colonial family
\n2. \u2018Coloured Germans\u2019, \u2018half castes\u2019 and \u2018Africans\u2019
\n3. The biologically German family: From the periphery to the core
\n4. Conclusion
\nReferences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The threat of \u2018woolly-haired grandchildren\u2019: Race, the colonial family and German nationalism The History of the Family Volume 14, Issue 4 (2009-10-26) The Domestic Frontier: European Colonialism, Nationalism and the Family Pages 356-368 DOI: 10.1016\/j.hisfam.2009.08.002 Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer in International History Flinders University, Australia The German colonial world was marked by an ostensibly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,28,459,8],"tags":[3228,2948,8069,8068,8070],"class_list":["post-17288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-afro-germans","tag-germany","tag-matthew-fitzpatrick","tag-matthew-p-fitzpatrick","tag-the-history-of-the-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}