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War of Words, War of Stones – Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar

Autor Jonathon Glassman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 feb 2011
The Swahili coast of Africa is often described as a paragon of transnational culture and racial fluidity. Yet, during a brief period in the 1960s, Zanzibar became deeply divided along racial lines as intellectuals and activists, engaged in bitter debates about their nation's future, ignited a deadly conflict that spread across the island. War of Words, War of Stones explores how violently enforced racial boundaries arose from Zanzibar's entangled history. Jonathon Glassman challenges explanations that assume racial thinking in the colonial world reflected only Western ideas. He shows how Africans crafted competing ways of categorizing race from local tradition and engagement with the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253222800
ISBN-10: 025322280X
Pagini: 414
Ilustrații: 15 b&w illustrations, 5 maps
Dimensiuni: 153 x 228 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

Preface and Acknowledgments; Note on UsagePart 1 Introduction 1. Rethinking Race in the Colonial World; 2. The Creation of a Racial StatePart 2. War of Words 3. A Secular Intelligentsia and the Origins of Exclusionary Ethnic Nationalism; 4. Subaltern Intellectuals and the Rise of Racial Nationalism; 5. Politics and Civil Society during the Newspaper WarsPart 3. War of Stones 6. Rumor, Race, and Crime; 7. Violence as Racial Discourse; 8. "June" as Chosen Trauma; Conclusion and Epilogue: Remaking RaceGlossary; Notes; List of References; Index

Recenzii

"A boldly conceived and meticulously conducted study that throws down a challenge to the writing of African politics in the twentieth century.... sure to unsettle, provoke, and guide for years to come." Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University"In this brave and powerful book Glassman shows that African thinking about nationhood wasn't abstract, but sometimes rooted in ideas about history, culture, and physical bodies. And while race and ethnicity were social constructions made on the ground, that ground itself was fissured by claims and disclaims of ancestry and birthplace and by weakened plantation economies and the evictions of squatters. With painstaking care and painful clarity Glassman maps that ground, on which ideas about race and ideas about nation were translated into terror and trauma." Luise White, University of Florida
"A boldly conceived and meticulously conducted study that throws down a challenge to the writing of African politics in the twentieth century... sure to unsettle, provoke, and guide for years to come." Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University "In this brave and powerful book Glassman shows that African thinking about nationhood wasn't abstract, but sometimes rooted in ideas about history, culture, and physical bodies. And while race and ethnicity were social constructions made on the ground, that ground itself was fissured by claims and disclaims of ancestry and birthplace and by weakened plantation economies and the evictions of squatters. With painstaking care and painful clarity Glassman maps that ground, on which ideas about race and ideas about nation were translated into terror and trauma." Luise White, University of Florida

Descriere

Race and racial thinking on the Swahili coast