Jonathon Glassman

War of Words, War of Stones

Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar

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Produktbeschreibung

Race and racial thinking on the Swahili coast

Produktdetails

• Indiana University Press
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780253222800
• ISBN-10: 025322280X
• Artikelnr.: 32728717

Autorenporträt

Jonathon Glassman is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. He is author of Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888, which was awarded the Herskovits Prize in African Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Usage
Part 1. Introduction
1. Rethinking Race in the Colonial World
2. The Creation of a Racial State
Part 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 Wars
Part 3. War of Stones
6. Rumor, Race, and Crime
7. Violence as Racial Discourse
8. "June" as Chosen Trauma
Conclusion and Epilogue: Remaking Race
Glossary
Notes
List of References
Index