{"id":47900,"date":"2016-06-22T20:25:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T20:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47900"},"modified":"2017-05-28T17:52:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T17:52:57","slug":"unreasonable-histories-nativism-multiracial-lives-and-the-genealogical-imagination-in-british-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47900","title":{"rendered":"Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/unreasonable-histories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duke University Press<\/a><br \/>\n2014<br \/>\n368 pages<br \/>\n51 illustrations<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5713-1<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5725-4<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiser.wits.ac.za\/users\/christopher-j-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Christopher J. Lee<\/strong><\/a>, Research Associate<br \/>\nWITS Institute for Social and Economic Research<br \/>\n<em>University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/unreasonable-histories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/Assets\/Books\/978-0-8223-5725-4_pr.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Unreasonable Histories<\/em>, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book&#8217;s core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa\u2014contemporary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malawi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malawi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zimbabwe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zimbabwe<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zambia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zambia<\/a>\u2014from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of evidence\u2014including organizational documents, court records, personal letters, commission reports, popular periodicals, photographs, and oral testimony\u2014Lee 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, <em>Unreasonable Histories<\/em> ultimately revisits foundational questions in the field, to argue for the continent&#8217;s diverse heritage and to redefine the meanings of being African in the past and present\u2014and for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Unreasonable Histories,&#8221; Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book&#8217;s core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa\u2014contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia\u2014from the 1910s to the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,11,459,8,17],"tags":[24269,302,24270,8825,1157],"class_list":["post-47900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-christopher-j-lee","tag-duke-university-press","tag-malawi","tag-zambia","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47900","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=47900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54013,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47900\/revisions\/54013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}