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Author Hall, Bruce S

Title A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 / Bruce S. Hall
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 335 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series African studies ; [115]
African studies series ; 115.
Contents 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, c. 1940-1960: 8. The racial politics of decolonization, c. 1940-1960 -- Conclusion
Summary "This book traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali"-- Provided by publisher
"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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Black people -- Africa, West -- History
Black race -- History
Slavery -- Africa, West -- History
Islam and culture -- Africa, West -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Black race
Black people
Islam and culture
Slavery
Islam
Rassentheorie
Ethnizität
Ethnische Beziehungen
Rassismus
Sklaverei
Ethnische Beziehung.
Islam.
West Africa
Mali -- Nord
Westafrika
Westafrika.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139082877
1139082876
9781139078313
1139078313
9780511976766
0511976763
9781107678842
1107678846