The rise of an African middle class : colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965 /

Tracing their quest for social recognition from the time of Cecil Rhodes to Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence, Michael O. West shows how some Africans were able to avail themselves of scarce educational and social opportunities in order to achieve some degree of upward mobility...

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Yazar: West, Michael O. (Michael Oliver)
Materyal Türü: Licensed eBooks
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Bloomington : Indiana University Press ©2002.
Online Erişim:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1zxz1nx
İçindekiler:
  • Running against the wind : African social mobility and identity in a settler colonial society
  • Courting "Miss Education" : the love affair with social mobility
  • The quest for bourgeois domesticity : on homemakers and households
  • The best of all homes : housing and security of tenure
  • A new beginning : the roots of African politics, 1914-1933
  • Found and lost : toward an African political consensus, 1934-1948
  • Back toward the beginning : the pursuit of racial partnership, 1949-1958
  • An aborted coronation : in search of the political kingdom, 1955-1965.