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The Samoan Women’s Revolt

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dc.contributor.author P. Fitzpatrick, Matthew
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-19T01:15:34Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-19T01:15:34Z
dc.date.issued 2017-05-09
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/488
dc.description 24 pages : PDF en_US
dc.description.abstract While the category of race remains indispensable for mapping the construction and maintenance of imperial hierarchies, this article argues that it is not sufficient. Far from being a universally accepted first principle in all colonial settings, racial thinking was viewed in German Samoa as an unwanted, highly controversial and even inflammatory approach to maintaining the asymmetrical communal relations necessitated by colonialism. Examining the civil unrest sparked by the publication of a racial theorist’s manifesto in the colony’s newspaper of record in 1911, and the ensuing furor this triggered in Germany, this article suggests that in German Samoa racial considerations came exceedingly late to the social and legal codification of colonial sexuality and marriage. Furthermore, when they arrived, they were resisted by Samoans, contested in the colonial metropole and subverted by leading officials in the colony. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Flinders University en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Oxford University Press en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 206–228;
dc.subject colonialism, race, gender, sexuality, German history, Samoan history en_US
dc.title The Samoan Women’s Revolt en_US
dc.title.alternative Race, Intermarriage and Imperial Hierarchy in German Samoa* en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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