Britons, Beasts, and Benighted Savages: British Superiority in Nineteenth Century Children’s Periodicals
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Soboeiro, Andrew
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
- Abstract
- An intrepid British explorer outwits and escapes a horde of bloodthirsty African cannibals. The Royal Navy defeats a fleet of merciless Arab slave traders. A cabal of Indian thieves plots to rob a British official but fails because the thieves are too untrustworthy to cooperate. Stories like these frequently appeared in British children’s magazines during the nineteenth century. Meant to entertain child readers and teach them moral lessons, these stories also reinforced popular racial and ethnic stereotypes, as well as the belief that white, Protestant Britons were superior to other peoples. By studying the stories published in nineteenth-century periodicals, I have illuminated the ways in which British children learned to conceive of race, ethnicity, and national identity.
- Date of publication
- spring 2015
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- Funding: Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- Advisor
- Pennybacker, Susan
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Extent
- 95
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