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Within Out, outdoor In takes usual old narratives and gives substitute readings for them. It endeavours to extend the parameters of comparative historical past by way of targeting the industrial, social, political and historiographical connections between societies, and via gazing those intertwined histories from diverse vantage issues. Iconoclastic, provocative, even quirky, within Out, outdoor In takes us past tradition and society into the imperial webs of organization discovered in and out the self-discipline of heritage.
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The comparison with the Southern African 'frontier' allows us to see the similarity between the Midwestern Populists' predicament and that of Voortrekkers in Southern Africa. Although Afrikaners opposed the British imperial control, whether from Whitehall or Cape 24 Inside Out, Outside In Town, they did not reject imperialism altogether: they shared many traditions that arose out of their Christian, European background, and, with the opening up of diamond and gold mines, from a shared sense that the good society would be achieved by extracting minerals from the ground for themselves and not for the benefit of Africans.
E. Church was losing its exalted position in the United States. Even by the time Du Bois was writing The Philadelphia Negro in 1897, the A. M. E. Church was no longer the largest denomination in Philadelphia. What the church was confronting in South Africa, therefore, was the question of what its role should be in black communities more generally. The response to the Ethiopian movement and the assumptions that church leaders made about rural people and their needs in urban society would be repeated in their later response to the Great Migration.
This is an imposition on the historical record, the privileging of some over others, the accentuation of the peculiar, and the downplaying of similarities with other nations or peoples that are described in such a way so as to make them seem unexceptional or ordinary. The kinds of narratives hinted at here - those formed around intersections with other societies and nation states, or based on the experiences of people who are generally deemed marginal (in other 26 Inside Out, Outside In words, those people upon whom even Social Historians have had a difficulty conferring agency) - appear to contradict exceptionalist theories.