| Description |
1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Series |
New African histories |
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New African histories series.
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| Contents |
Native and non-native: colonial urbanization and the legal foundations of identity -- Identity and social structure in interwar Dar es Salaam -- Posing the urban question: war, state intervention, and the creation of urban entitlement -- Continental shift: civilization, racial thought, and the intellectual foundations of an African nationalism -- Nationalist thought, racial caricature, and urban citizenship in postcolonial Tanzania |
| Summary |
Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Nation and race-both translatable as taifa in Swahili-were not simply universal ideas brought to Africa by European colonizers, as previous studies assume. They were instead categories crafted by local African thinkers to make sense of deep inequalities, particularly those between local Africans and Indian immigrants. Taifa shows how nation and race became the key political categories to guide colonial and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Tanzania -- Dar es Salaam -- History
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Nationalism -- Tanzania -- Dar es Salaam -- History
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Ethnicity -- Tanzania -- Dar es Salaam -- History
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HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
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Ethnicity
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Nationalism
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Race relations
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Social conditions
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Urbanization
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| SUBJECT |
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) -- Social conditions -- History
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Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) -- Race relations -- History
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| Subject |
Tanzania -- Dar es Salaam
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780821444177 |
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0821444174 |
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