Colonial Inscriptions: Race, Sex, and Class in Kenya

by Carolyn Martin Shaw

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In Kenyan colonialist imagery, the Kikuyu were vilified as deceitful servants while the Maasai were romanticized as noble savages in a fashion similar to American representation of the Black slave and the "wild" Indian. Carolyn Martin Shaw examines this imagery in the works of historians and ethnographers, as well as in novels and films.

Through the works of Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta, Elspeth Huxley, and Isak Dinesen,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816625255

ISBN13:9780816625253

Release Date:May 1995

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:9.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Africa Anthropology Cultural Discrimination & Racism Gender Studies History Humanities Kenya Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations

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