Race and empire : eugenics in colonial Kenya

著者

• Campbell, Chloe

書誌事項

Race and empire : eugenics in colonial Kenya

Chloe Campbell

（Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie）

Manchester University Press, 2007

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p, 187-207) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Race and empire 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. The Kenyan eugenics movement of the 1930s adapted British ideas to the colonial environment: in all its extremity, Kenyan eugenics was not simply a bizarre and embarrassing colonial mutation, as it was later dismissed, but a logical extension of British eugenics in a colonial context. By tracing the history of eugenic thought in Kenya, the books shows how the movement took on a distinctive colonial character, driven by settler political preoccupations and reacting to increasingly outspoken African demands for better, and more independent, education. The economic fragility of Kenya in the early 1930s made the eugenicists particularly dependent on British financial support. Ultimately, the suspicious response of the Colonial Office and the Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, backed up by a growing expert concern about race in science, led to the failure of Kenyan eugenics to gain the necessary British backing. Despite this lack of concrete success, eugenic theories on race and intelligence were widely supported by the medical profession in Kenya, as well as powerful members of the official and non-official European settler population. The long-term failures of the eugenics movement should not blind us to its influence among the social and administrative elite of colonial Kenya. Through a close examination of attitudes towards race and intelligence in a British colony, Race and empire reveals how eugenics was central to colonial racial theories before World War Two. -- .

目次

Acknowledgments 1. Nellie's Dance 2. British eugenics, race and empire The British eugenics movement Race and empire Eugenics and Kenya Colony 3. Kenyan medical discourse and eugenics Eugenic research on the African frontier: Dr Gordon and Dr Vint The medical leaders and eugenic discourse in the EAMJ 4. Metropolitan responses The response of the Eugenics Society Race and intelligence in the British press Official interpretations 5. Settler attitudes to eugenics and race The Kenya Society for the Study of Race Improvement Eugenics and settler politics Self-government, climate and Closer Union African education Officials and the eugenic research 6. Biology, development and welfare Oliver and 'The General Intelligence Test for Africans Juvenile delinquency and Kabete Reformatory Mathari Mental Hospital, criminal lunacy and criminal responsibility 7. Conclusion: the decline of the eugenics empire Abbreviations Bibliography -- .

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA82069953
• ISBN:
  • 9780719071607
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Manchester
• ページ数/冊数: x, 214 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • NDC9 : 498.2
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA04290573