Science, Race Relations and Resistance: Britain, 1870-1914

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By exploring the dimensions of race, race relations and resistance, this book offers a new account of the British Empire's greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture. Based on a wide range of published and archival sources, this book uncovers the conflicting opinions that characterised late Victorian and Edwardian discourse on the 'colour question'. It offers a revisionist account of race in science, and provides original studies of the invention of the language of race relations and of resistance to race-thinking led by radical abolitionists and persons of Asian and African descent living in the United Kingdom. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of race, colonialism and culture, and to a readership interested in the history of science and race, anti-slavery and humanitarian movements, and the roots of anti-racist resistance. Science, race relations and resistance: BRITAIN, 1870–1914 Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Contents GENERAL EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABBREVIATIONS PART I: Introduction CHAPTER ONE: Rethinking Victorian racism CHAPTER TWO: Imperial contradictions: assimilation and separate development PART II: Science and race CHAPTER THREE: From institutional foundations to applied anthropology, 1871–1914 CHAPTER FOUR: Race, popular science and empire PART III: The language of race relations CHAPTER FIVE: From colour prejudice to race relations CHAPTER SIX: The colour question: ‘The greatest difficulty in the British Empire’ (1900–14) PART IV: Resistance CHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance: initiatives and obstacles, 1870–1914 CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusion SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX