Foreign Native

Author : RW Johnson
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781868427727

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Foreign Native by RW Johnson Pdf

In Foreign Native, RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban – fresh off the plane from Merseyside – to later years as an academic, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator, he has produced an entertaining and occasionally eye-popping memoir brimming with history, anecdote and insight. Johnson charts his evolution from enthusiastic, left-leaning Africanist to political realist, relating episodes that influenced his intellectual worldview, including time spent among the exiled liberation movements in London during the 1960s, a sojourn in newly independent Guinea and more recent forays into Zimbabwe. There are wonderful stories, some hilarious, others filled with pathos, about the multitude of characters – Harold Strachan, Tom Sharpe, Ronnie Kasrils, Helen Suzman, Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, among many others – that he met along the way. Perceptive, critical and full of verve, Foreign Native is leavened with a deep humanity that makes it a pleasure to read.

Author : Michael Neocosmos
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782869783980

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From 'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners'. Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa by Michael Neocosmos Pdf

Xenophobia is a political discourse. As such, its historical development as well as the conditions of its existence must be elucidated in terms of the practices and prescriptions that structure the field of politics. In South Africa, its history is connected to the manner citizenship has been conceived and fought over during the past fifty years at least. Migrant labour was de-nationalised by the apartheid state, while African nationalism saw it as the very foundation of that oppressive system. However, only those who could show a family connection with the colonial/apartheid formation of South Africa could claim citizenship at liberation. Others were excluded and seen as unjustified claimants to national resources. Xenophobia's current conditions of existence are to be found in the politics of a post-apartheid nationalism were state prescriptions founded on indigeneity have been allowed to dominate uncontested in condition of passive citizenship. The de-politicisation of a population, which had been able to assert its agency during the 1980s, through a discourse of 'human rights' in particular, has contributed to this passivity. State liberal politics have remained largely unchallenged. As in other cases of post-colonial transition in Africa, the hegemony of xenophobic discourse, the book shows, is to be sought in the character of the state consensus. Only a rethinking of citizenship as an active political identity can re-institute political agency and hence begin to provide alternative prescriptions to the political consensus of state-induced exclusion.

Author : Brenden W. Rensink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1623496551

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Native But Foreign by Brenden W. Rensink Pdf

Foreword / by Sterling Evans -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction: Comparing the US-Canadian and US-Mexican borderlands and the transnational natives who crossed them -- Homelands, transnational worlds, labor, and border encounters -- Crees, Chippewas, and Yaquis in early transnational contexts -- Transnational encounters and evolving prejudice in Montana and Arizona, 1800-1900 -- Native peoples as "foreign" refugees and immigrants -- Yaqui refugees and American response, 1880s-1910s -- Cree refugees and American response, 1885-1888 -- Native struggles to make American homelands -- Crees in limbo and deportation, 1889-1900 -- Arizona Yaquimi and integration in the United States, 1900s-1950s -- Yaqui legality and belonging in Arizona, 1900-1950s -- Cree and Chippewa attempts at permanent Montana settlement, 1900-1908 -- New allies, new efforts, and final resolutions -- Cree and Chippewa legislative battles and victories, 1908-1916 -- Yaqui struggle for land and federal tribal recognition, 1962-1980

Author : M. Neocosmos
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Alien labor
ISBN : 9782869782006

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From 'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners'. Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa by M. Neocosmos Pdf

Xenophobia is a political discourse. As such, its historical development as well as the conditions of its existence must be elucidated in terms of the practices and prescriptions that structure the field of politics. In South Africa, its history is connected to the manner citizenship has been conceived and fought over during the past fifty years at least. Migrant labour was de-nationalised by the apartheid state, while African nationalism saw it as the very foundation of that oppressive system. However, only those who could show a family connection with the colonial/apartheid formation of South Africa could claim citizenship at liberation. Others were excluded and seen as unjustified claimants to national resources. Xenophobia's current conditions of existence are to be found in the politics of a post-apartheid nationalism were state prescriptions founded on indigeneity have been allowed to dominate uncontested in condition of passive citizenship. The de-politicisation of a population, which had been able to assert its agency during the 1980s, through a discourse of 'human rights' in particular, has contributed to this passivity. State liberal politics have remained largely unchallenged. As in other cases of post-colonial transition in Africa, the hegemony of xenophobic discourse, the book shows, is to be sought in the character of the state consensus. Only a rethinking of citizenship as an active political identity can re-institute political agency and hence begin to provide alternative prescriptions to the political consensus of state-induced exclusion.

Author : Gillian Poulter
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774858793

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Becoming Native in a Foreign Land by Gillian Poulter Pdf

How did British colonists in Victorian Montreal come to think of themselves as "native Canadian"? This richly illustrated work reveals that colonists adopted, then appropriated, Aboriginal and French Canadian activities such as hunting, lacrosse, snowshoeing, and tobogganing. In the process, they constructed visual icons that were recognized at home and abroad as distinctly "Canadian." This new Canadian nationality mimicked indigenous characteristics but ultimately rejected indigenous players, and championed the interests of white, middle-class, Protestant males who used their newly acquired identity to dominate the political realm. English Canadian identity was not formed solely by emulating what was British; this book shows that it gained ground by usurping what was indigenous in a foreign land.

Author : Lilikalā Kame'eleihiwa,Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106015312801

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Native Land and Foreign Desires by Lilikalā Kame'eleihiwa,Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa Pdf

A detailed analysis of the Mahele, a pivotal period in the history of Hawaii.

Author : Baron De Malortie
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385462595

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Egypt. Native Rulers and Foreign Interference by Baron De Malortie Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Karl Malortie
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385310667

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Egypt: Native Rulers and Foreign Interference by Karl Malortie Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Michigan. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Michigan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020067869

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Census of the State of Michigan, 1894 by Michigan. Department of State Pdf

Author : Michigan. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Divorce
ISBN : CHI:102184144

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Annual Report of the Secretary of State on the Registration of Births and Deaths, Marriages and Divorces in Michigan ... by Michigan. Department of State Pdf

Author : Gillian Poulter
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774816427

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Becoming Native in a Foreign Land by Gillian Poulter Pdf

How did British colonists in Victorian Montreal come to think of themselves as “native Canadian”? This richly illustrated work reveals that colonists adopted, then appropriated, Aboriginal and French Canadian activities such as hunting, lacrosse, snowshoeing, and tobogganing. In the process, they constructed visual icons that were recognized at home and abroad as distinctly “Canadian.” This new Canadian nationality mimicked indigenous characteristics but ultimately rejected indigenous players, and championed the interests of white, middle-class, Protestant males who used their newly acquired identity to dominate the political realm. English Canadian identity was not formed solely by emulating what was British; this book shows that it gained ground by usurping what was indigenous in a foreign land.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11507052

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Imperial Maritime Customs by Anonim Pdf

Author : South Australia. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : South Australia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015392173

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Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia by South Australia. Parliament Pdf

Author : Catherine M. Cameron,Paul Kelton,Alan C. Swedlund
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816500246

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Beyond Germs by Catherine M. Cameron,Paul Kelton,Alan C. Swedlund Pdf

Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America challenges the hypothesis that the massive depopulation of the New World was primarily caused by diseases brought by Europeans, which scholars used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous peoples of North America. Contributors expertly argue that blaming germs downplays the active role of Europeans in inciting wars, destroying livelihoods, and erasing identities.

Author : Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics of Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Massachusetts
ISBN : UOM:39015020460245

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The Census of Massachusetts: 1895 by Massachusetts. Bureau of Statistics of Labor Pdf