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The Africanized Queen: Metonymic Site of Transformation

by Nkiru Nzegwu Introduction Race as a category of classification has an infamous history of injustice and domination. In late nineteenth century Africa, it was deployed in a violent agenda of empire-building, in which European superiority became the organizing principle of the new political order. Following colonization, European cultural values, social norms, and conception of […]