Race and Empire : eugenics in colonial Kenya /

Campbell, Chloe

Race and Empire : eugenics in colonial Kenya / Chloe Campbell. - Manchester ; Manchester University Press : (c)2007. New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (x, 214 pages) - - Studies in imperialism .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments; General editor's introduction; 1 Introduction: Nellie's dance; 2 British eugenics, empire and race; 3 Kenyan medical discourse and eugenics; 4 Metropolitan responses; 5 Settler attitudes to eugenics and race; 6 Biology, development and welfare; 7 Conclusion: the decline of the eugenics empire; Abbreviations in notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

This book tells the story of a short-lived but vehement eugenics movement that emerged among a group of Europeans in Kenya in the 1930s, unleashing a set of writings on racial differences in intelligence more extreme than that emanating from any other British colony in the twentieth century. Through a close examination of attitudes towards race and intelligence in a British colony, it reveals how eugenics was central to colonial racial theories before World War Two.




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Eugenics--Kenya.
Racism--Kenya.
Prejudices.
Eugenics--history
History, 20th Century
Prejudice


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