Contents:
Reading the blackness of the Sudan, c. Race and the Colonial Encounter, c.
Meeting the Tuareg-- 4. Colonial conquest and statecraft in the Niger Bend, c. The Morality of Descent, Tuareg arguments about authority and descent, c.
Songhay arguments about land, c. Race and Decolonization, The racial politics of decolonization, Conclusion.
Contents Introduction-- Part I. This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than years in one important place along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert: Reading the blackness of the Sudan, c. Please see the permission section of the www. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory and uncivilized banditry.
Nielsen Book Data Publisher's Summary The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory and uncivilized banditry.
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"Bruce Hall embarked on a great project to understand why racial arguments were so common in West Africa's political contexts and yet so invisible in history. A History of Race in Muslim 'West Africa, By Bruce S. Hall. African Studies Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Pp. xvii, ;.
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