From Imperial Leather to Issue of Objectivity and Colonial Mindset Beyond Colonial History In Imperial Leather (1995), Anne McClintock examines how the interaction among race, class, and gender shaped history, particularly within the colonial English Empire and its modern successor, the United Kingdom. Drawing on a wide range of cultural, theoretical, and capitalist materials—from advertisements and journals to literary works, authors’ lives, and psychoanalysis—McClintock develops a multidimensional analysis of imperial modernity. The following passage captures the central argument of the book: “…history is not shaped around a single privileged social category. Race and class difference cannot, I believe, be understood as sequentially derivative of sexual difference, or vice versa. Rather, the formative categories of imperial modernity are articulated categories in the sense that they came into being in historical relation to each other and emerge only in dynamic, shifting and intimat...