Description: Primitive Normativity : Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya, Paperback by Williams, Elizabeth W., ISBN 1478025492, ISBN-13 9781478025498, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "In Primitive Normativity Elizabeth W. Williams traces the genealogy of a distinct narrative about African sexuality that British colonial authorities in Kenya used to justify their control over African populations. She identifies a discourse of "primitive normativity" that suggested that Kenyan Africans were too close to nature to develop the forms of sexual neuroses and practices such as hysteria, homosexuality, and prostitution that were supposedly common among Europeans. Primitive normativity framed Kenyan African sexuality as less sexually polluted than that of the more deviant populations who colonized them. Williams shows that colonial officials and settlers used this narrative to further the goals of white supremacy by arguing that Africans' sexuality was proof that Africans must be protected from the forces of urbanization, Western-style education, and political participation, lest they be exposed to forms of civilized sexual deviance. Challenging the more familiar notion that Europeans universally viewed Africans as hypersexualized, Williams demonstrates how narratives of African sexual normativity, rather than deviance, reinforced ideas about the evolutionary backwardness of African peoples and their inability to govern themselves"--
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Book Title: Primitive Normativity : Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colon
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Primitive Normativity : Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Sociology / General, Gender Studies, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Africa / East
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Author: ElizabethW. Williams
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
