Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940 FROM THE PUBLISHER
Studying of the meanings of education, mission identities, and cultural change in Southern Rhodesia, Summers shows how mission-educated Africans negotiated new identities for themselves and their communities within the confines of segregation.
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Studying of the meanings of education, mission identities, and cultural change in Southern Rhodesia, Summers shows how mission-educated Africans negotiated new identities for themselves and their communities within the confines of segregation.
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Education at Rhodesia's mission schools created a class of Africans who occupied a contested and fluid space between the dominant white colonialists and the majority of the African people. These educated Africans were not just simply collaborators in the system of oppression, argues Summers (history, U. of Richmond); instead they simultaneously administered segregation and challenged its sharply delineated categories of black and white. She looks at local conflicts surrounding and within the mission schools, such as student strikes, negotiations over the professional status of teachers, and disputes over school sponsorship and control as a window into how elite Africans tried to reshape government or mission initiatives to their own needs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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