Book contents
- Visions for Racial Equality
- Visions for Racial Equality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Among the Wild Scotsmen
- 3 Champagne and Slaves
- 4 The Universal Vernacular
- 5 Frightful Libel upon Humanity
- 6 Rhodes Must Not Rise
- 7 A Future Foreclosed
- 8 Grief Never Wears Out
- 9 Liberal Translations
- 10 The Rest Is History
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - The Rest Is History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2022
- Visions for Racial Equality
- Visions for Racial Equality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Among the Wild Scotsmen
- 3 Champagne and Slaves
- 4 The Universal Vernacular
- 5 Frightful Libel upon Humanity
- 6 Rhodes Must Not Rise
- 7 A Future Foreclosed
- 8 Grief Never Wears Out
- 9 Liberal Translations
- 10 The Rest Is History
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Scott and his closest African associates are not generally remembered in contemporary Malawi. The Presbyterian churches and their Scottish partners have played a significant role in Malawi’s late-colonial and postcolonial history, but other religious and political entities have also been influential. The racialized order and the emphasis on peoplehood have effaced Scott’s vision for racial equality. His insistence on mutual recognition in an unequal encounter between Europeans and Africans sought a permanent transformation in the relationship. The figure of the risen Christ gave an injunction to examine prejudices. As such, Scott’s vision differed from more recent cosmopolitan ideas as well as the reversals promised in participatory development. Scott’s theology of reversals sought epistemic justice in a world in which the racialized others barely participated as co-knowers. Doing epistemic justice to his vision in the twenty-first century requires asking questions about who are admitted to imagine the moral and political horizons of racial equality.
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- Visions for Racial EqualityDavid Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi, pp. 265 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022