Negotiating Racial Politics in the Family : Transnational Histories Touched by National Socialism and Apartheid.

Intro -- Negotiating Racial Politics in the Family: Transnational Histories touched by National Socialism and Apartheid -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Family and Nation as Imagined Communities -- Race and Narratives of Whiteness -- A First Acquaintance -- Shifts in Time and Tongue -- Part 1: National Socialism Across the German-Dutch Border -- 1 'Will My Own Brother have to Fight Against us Now?' -- Political Controversies -- A German-Dutch Royal Family -- Family and Nation Under Pressure -- Gnadengesuch (Request for Exemption) -- Race as the Elephant in the Room -- 2 "If War Comes, I will be Tossed to and Fro -- Longing for the 'Good' Germany -- Into the Blue -- A Heimat in Holland? -- 'You are no Longer German' -- A Sprinkling of Sand in the Gears -- 6 Guilt and Shame -- 3 'Even After the War we will Stand Alone' -- Marriage Certificate -- Stateless -- 'A Man I had to Protect' -- Growing Isolation -- Terrified -- Together and Yet Alone -- 'One Cannot Say It Belongs to the Past' -- Part 2: Apartheid Across the Dutch-South African Border -- 4 'Can we Build a Future on this?' -- The Second World War in Breukelen and Bloemfontein -- Foreign and yet so Familiar -- A Shared European Origin -- Emigration Fever -- On the Way to the Promised Land -- The Dutch Reformed 'Dopper' Church in South Africa -- 'A Life Full of Grace' -- 5 'They are so Different from us' -- Whitening at Sea -- A New World in Black and White -- Boers, British and Outlanders -- Among the Dutch in Pretoria -- Blank Baasskap (White Rule) -- A Servant Hutch in the Garden -- Stay or Return? -- The White Civilisation Narrative -- 6 'I never set out to Wage War Against my Family' -- Family as a Gateway to a 'Strange' World -- The 'Other' in the Household -- Apartheid at Work -- Contact Zones -- A Tense Family Reunion.

You must have been - or gone away from - there -- The Presence of the Past -- Epilogue -- Migration and National Identifications -- Implicated in Racial Exclusion -- Touching Tales -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Negotiating Racial Politics in the Family, Henkes investigates how migrants negotiated their various responsibilities and loyalties towards family and nation, plus other major ethical obligations, when they became implicated in repressive political regimes such as National Socialism and Apartheid.

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