Lindner, Ulrike (2016). Transcending Gender Roles, Crossing Racial and Political Boundaries: Agnes Hill's Fight for her Inheritance in German Southwest Africa. J. Imp. Commonw. Hist., 44 (5). S. 777 - 798. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1743-9329
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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 at the changing boundaries between white' and non-white' and the ambiguity of racial classifications. The article argues that women such as Agnes Hill could play a significant role in colonial settler societies and were able to transcend gender-role boundaries.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-259573 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/03086534.2016.1229260 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | J. Imp. Commonw. Hist. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 44 | ||||||||
| Number: | 5 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 777 - 798 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2016 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | ABINGDON | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1743-9329 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/25957 |
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