Janet McIntosh lifts the debate on belonging to a new level in this beautiful book. Her vivid portrait—a sophisticated mix of empathy and critical distance—shows how twisted memory does not necessarily undermine sincerity of feeling. Her notion of ‘structural oblivion’ offers a key to the understanding of the vicissitudes of belonging also elsewhere in the present-day world. So does her magnificent demonstration of the plurality of whiteness."—Peter Geschiere, author of The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion in Africa and Europe “Richly nuanced, theoretically sophisticated, and utterly compelling… a major scholarly achievement.”—Richard Schroeder, author of Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania    “This is, simply put, a splendid book… one of the best in the new and growing literature on post-colonial whiteness, and in whiteness studies generally.”—Brett Shadle, author of The Souls of White Folk: White Settlers in Kenya, 1900-1920s