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Title Still standing: the maintenance of a white elite in Mauritius | ||
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http://hdl.handle.net/1887/12816 | ||
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Date 2007 | ||
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Author(s) Salverda, T. | ||
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Abstract In the centre of Port Louis, the capital of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius, stands a statue of Adrien d'Epinay, the renowned forefather of the island's white minority known as Franco-Mauritians. For many Mauritians d'Epinay represents the resistance of the colonial elite white plantation owners to the abolition of slavery, and many islanders call for the statue's removal as often as they criticise the privileged position of d'Epinay's descendants. Nevertheless, both the statue and the white elite are still standing. | ||
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Subject(s) Mauritius; Migration | ||
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Language en_US | ||
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Publisher IIAS, Leiden | ||
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Type of publication Article / Letter to editor | ||
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Format application/pdf | ||
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Source IIAS Newsletter, 45, 19 (2007) | ||
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Repository Leiden - Africanists at University of Leiden 
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