ISBN:
9780253005045
,
0253005043
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 398 p., [14] p. of plates)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Glassman, Jonathon War of words, war of stones
DDC:
305.80096781
Keywords:
Violence History
;
Tanzania
;
Zanzibar
;
Violence History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
;
Ethnic relations
;
Race relations
;
Violence
;
History
;
Zanzibar History
;
20th century
;
Zanzibar Ethnic relations
;
History
;
Zanzibar Race relations
;
History
;
Tanzania
;
Zanzibar
;
Electronic books
;
History
;
Zanzibar Race relations
;
History
;
Zanzibar Ethnic relations
;
History
;
Zanzibar History 20th century
;
Tanzania ; Zanzibar
Abstract:
Rethinking race in the colonial world -- The creation of a racial state -- A secular intelligentsia and the origins of exclusionary ethnic nationalism -- Subaltern intellectuals and the rise of racial nationalism -- Politics and civil society during the newspaper wars -- Rumor, race, and crime -- Violence as racial discourse -- "June" as chosen trauma -- Conclusion and epilogue : remaking race.
Abstract:
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 ass
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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