Details

Subject(s)

• Angola—Colonization [Browse]
• Angola—Politics and government [Browse]
• Angola—History [Browse]
• Portugal—Colonies—Administration [Browse]
• Angola—Race relations—History [Browse]
• Portuguese—Angola [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples—Angola [Browse]

Summary note

The book is the first comprehensive study of race relations in Angola. It covers the entire five-century-long relationship between the peoples of Angola and Portugal. Portuguese imperial thinkers asserted that they were unique among European colonizers in their ability to establish and maintain egalitarian and non-discriminatory relationships with tropical peoples. This concept was elevated to a philosophical plateau and given the name Luscotropicalism. Propagated with fervor by Portuguese colonial thinkers, Lusotropical doctrines were widely accepted as being valid by twentieth-century diplomats and political thinkers in both Europe and the United States, many of whom believed that Portuguese colonialism in Africa would continue indefinitely.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction --- New Introduction ---- Part I. Lusotropicalism. 1. Lusotropicalism: theory and early practice
• 2. The dynamics of miscegenatiion ---- Part II. White settlement. 3. Degredados and the system of penal colonization --- 4. Directed white settlement in rural Angola: the sahttering of a dream ---- Part III. Racial domination. 5. Realities of the Civilizing Mission: from the end of slavery to the war of Independence --- 6. Wartime response towards African civilians: the dilemma of development versus control ---- Part IV. Conclusion. 7. The reality of race in Angola.

Other title(s)

Angola under the Portuguese : the myth and the reality

ISBN

1592212581 (pbk.)

OCLC

55852883

RCP

H - S

Statement on responsible collection description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...