Bruce S. Hall

History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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. This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in one important place along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert: the Niger Bend in northern Mali. Using Arabic documents held in Timbuktu, as well as local colonial sources in French and oral interviews, Bruce S. Hall reconstructs an African intellectual history of race that long predated colonial conquest, and which has continued to orient inter-African relations ever since.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139063692
• Artikelnr.: 52965550

Autorenporträt

Bruce S. Hall is an assistant professor at Duke University. His work appears in the Journal of North African Studies, the International Journal of African Historical Studies and the Journal of African Studies. Professor Hall previously held positions as an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and as an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Race Along the Desert
Edge, c.1600
1900: 1. Making race in the Sahel, c.1600
1900; 2. Reading the blackness of the Sudan, c.1600
1900; Part II. Race and the Colonial Encounter, c.1830
1936: 3. Meeting the Tuareg; 4. Colonial conquest and statecraft in the Niger Bend, c.1893
1936; Part III. The Morality of Descent, 1893
1940: 5. Defending hierarchy: Tuareg arguments about authority and descent, c.1893
1940; 6. Defending slavery: the moral order of inequality, c.1893
1940; 7. Defending the river: Songhay arguments about land, c.1893
1940; Part IV. Race and Decolonization, 1940
60: 8. The racial politics of decolonization, 1940
60; Conclusion.