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dc.contributor.authorLUTTIKHUIS, Bart
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-10T15:10:20Z
dc.date.available2014-03-10T15:10:20Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationEuropean Review of History ; Revue européenne d'histoire, 2013, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 539-558en
dc.identifier.issn1469-8293
dc.identifier.issn1350-7486
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/30187
dc.descriptionFirst published online : August 2013
dc.description.abstractThis article proposes to introduce the study of European identity into colonial history and vice versa. It analyses the ways in which the legal classification of the population functioned in late-colonial Indonesia. A close inspection of this case reveals that the oft-cited fundamental colonial difference between ‘ruler’ and ‘ruled’ was in reality not nearly as clear-cut. The concept of ‘Europeanness’ – as opposed to ‘Whiteness’ – is highlighted as the category at the center of colonial hierarchy. This leads to a re-evaluation of the relative significance of various differentiating categories in the colonial context, most importantly race and class. The author concludes that by not taking ‘Europeanness’ seriously as an independent category, scholars of ‘cultural racism’ have tended to overemphasise ‘race’, with the consequence of oversimplifying the complex, multi-layered nature of the colonial social hierarchy.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Review of History ; Revue européenne d'histoireen
dc.titleBeyond race : constructions of "Europeanness" in late-colonial legal practice in the Dutch East Indiesen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13507486.2013.764845
dc.identifier.volume20en
dc.identifier.startpage539en
dc.identifier.endpage558en
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