ABSTRACT

Imperialism, Race and Resistance marks an important new development in the study of British and imperial interwar history.
Focusing on Britain, West Africa and South Africa, Imperialism, Race and Resistance charts the growth of anti-colonial resistance and opposition to racism in the prelude to the 'post-colonial' era. The complex nature of imperial power in explored, as well as its impact on the lives and struggles of black men and women in Africa and the African diaspora.
Barbara Bush argues that tensions between white dreams of power and black dreams of freedom were seminal in transofrming Britain's relationship with Africa in an era bounded by global war and shaped by ideological conflict.

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

Why imperialism, race and resistance?

chapter 1|27 pages

Africa after the First World War

Race and imperialism redefined?

part |82 pages

West Africa

chapter 2|24 pages

Britain's imperial hinterland

Colonialism in West Africa

chapter 3|29 pages

Expatriate society

Race, gender and the culture of imperialism

chapter 4|28 pages

‘Whose dream was it anyway?’ 1

Anti-colonial protest in West Africa, 1929–45

part |74 pages

South Africa

chapter 5|27 pages

Forging the racist state

Imperialism, race and labour in Britain's ‘white dominion’

chapter 6|24 pages

‘Knocking on the white man's door’

Repression and resistance

chapter 7|22 pages

‘Fighting for the underdog’

British liberalism and the South African ‘native question’

part |75 pages

Britain

chapter 8|24 pages

Into the heart of empire

Black Britain

chapter 9|20 pages

Into the heart of empire

The ‘race problem’

chapter 10|23 pages

The winds of change

Towards a new imperialism in Africa?

chapter |7 pages

Retrospective

Africa and the African diaspora in a ‘post-imperial’ world