Transcending Gender Roles, Crossing Racial and Political Boundaries: Agnes Hill’s Fight for her Inheritance in German Southwest Africa
| Autor: | Ulrike Lindner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Daughter White (horse) media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography 06 humanities and the arts Development Colonialism 050701 cultural studies Racism language.human_language Genealogy 060104 history German Politics Political Science and International Relations language Wife 0601 history and archaeology Inheritance media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 44:777-797 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9329 0308-6534 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03086534.2016.1229260 |
| Popis: | Agnes Hill, the unmarried daughter of a British landowner and farmer and his mixed-race wife, was living a ‘white’ farmer’s life in the colony German South West Africa. In 1908, she was suddenly classified as ‘native’, due to the enforcement of radical racial legislation in the German colony degrading the offspring of mixed-race people as ‘bastards’. The new classification would have had dire consequences for the whole family, especially in respect to their landownership. However, Agnes fought for her family, with the support of solicitors and – as a daughter of a British father coming from the Cape Colony – with the help of the British consul residing in the German colony. She finally succeeded in securing the estate for the family, even if she was an unmarried woman in a predominantly patriarchal settler society. Using mainly material from the court cases, the article traces Agnes Hill’s fight for the Hill inheritance, thereby investigating various crucial issues of colonial societies. It points... |
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