:Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa.

Zine Magubane's eloquent study of British colonial ideology is simultaneously exciting and somewhat frustrating. Drawing on insights from the literature of the black Atlantic, and inspired by both Marxism and postcolonialism, Magubane explores the deployment of images of black bodies from southern Africa in British discourse in the nineteenth century. Although her main focus is on the ideological productions of British and British‐origin people, with particular attention to the creation of ideology concerning Africa, she also includes shorter discussions of African views of white and black identity. Her critical innovation, inspired by the work of Mary Poovey and others, is to connect discourse about blackness to discourse about economics and the normalization of capitalist economic change. Magubane's linkage of disparate places and topics in unexpected and interesting ways is stimulating; the relative orthodoxy of her narrative trajectory and her lack of archival research are somewhat frustrating. Nonetheless, she raises important arguments and illuminates complicated interconnections between different colonial sites.