Visions for Racial Equality

David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi

AvHarri Englund

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, who came to see Europeans as learners in Africa, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a unique vision for racial equality in nineteenth-century Africa. By immersing himself in the vernacular language and institutions, Scott developed a theology of reversals to pursue justice in race relations. It set him on a collision course with the Church, colonial government and the White commercial interests spearheaded by Cecil Rhodes. Harri Englund shows how Scott's struggle for justice was as much epistemic as political and spiritual - a vision for the future in which White and Black would thrive in their mutual recognition as co-knowers. From linguistic translation to conflicts over land and taxation, from slave trade to personal intimacies, Visions for Racial Equality weaves a rich tapestry of themes in the life and times of a little-known visionary.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:439 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:326
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009077057

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Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Harri Englund is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has three decades of research experience in Southern and Central Africa. He is the author of From War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland (2002), Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (2006) which was awarded the Amaury Talbot Prize, Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio (2011) and Gogo Breeze: Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech (2018).

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'Harri Englund has produced a thoroughly researched and insightful book on the history of early colonial Malawi. He explores the inter-relationships between the church, the colonial state, the capitalist class, and the Africans. Revolving around the work of Rev. David Clement Scott, of the Church of Scotland Mission, readers will appreciate how the spread of Christianity, as well as the operations of the state were 'negotiated' processes involving the 'civilized' Europeans and the colonized Africans.' Paul C. Banda, Tarleton State University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Among the wild Scotsmen; 3. Champagne and slaves; 4. The universal vernacular; 5. Frightful libel upon humanity; 6. Rhodes must not rise; 7. A future foreclosed; 8. Grief never wears out; 9. Liberal translations; 10. The rest is history.