Science race relations and resistance

<p>By exploring the dimensions of race race relations and resistance this book offers a new account of the British Empire's greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race then as now was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture. <br><br>Based on a wide range of published and archival sources this book uncovers the conflicting opinions that characterised late Victorian and Edwardian discourse on the 'colour question'. It offers a revisionist account of race in science and provides original studies of the invention of the language of race relations and of resistance to race-thinking led by radical abolitionists and persons of Asian and African descent living in the United Kingdom. <br><br>The book will be of interest to students and scholars of race colonialism and culture and to a readership interested in the history of science and race anti-slavery and humanitarian movements and the roots of anti-racist resistance.</p>