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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mahmood Mamdani |
ISBN: | 0691192340 9780691192345 |
OCLC Number: | 1059228955 |
Notes: | First published: 2001. |
Description: | xxvi, 364 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface to the 2020 Edition -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Thinking about Genocide -- 1. Defining the Crisis of Postcolonial Citizenship: Settler and Native as Political Identities -- 2. The Origins of Hutu and Tutsi -- 3. The Racialization of the Hutu/Tutsi Difference under Colonialism -- 4. The "Social Revolution" of 1959 -- 5. The Second Republic: Redefining Tutsi from Race to Ethnicity -- 6. The Politics of Indigeneity in Uganda: Background to the RPF Invasion 7. The Civil War and the Genocide -- 8. Tutsi Power in Rwanda and the Citizenship Crisis in Eastern Congo -- Conclusion: Political Reform after Genocide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Responsibility: | Mahmood Mamdani. |
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"[Mamdani's] analysis of Rwandese society, in particular the role of the church in the genocide, is fascinating."-Victoria Brittain, Guardian "Few are better qualified to explain the tensions of post-colonial Africa than Mahmood Mamdani. . . . His Rwandan case-study provides powerful evidence that the Tutsis came to be crushed between colonist and native."-Richard Synge, Independent "The strengths of the book are clear and admirable. . . . Anyone from now on who writes on identity in Central Africa-and there will be many-will have to wrestle with the case that Mamdani has made."-Jeffrey Herbst, Foreign Affairs "A genuinely original contribution to understanding the Rwandan catastrophe."-Dissent Read more...
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- Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
- Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
- Hutu (African people) -- Rwanda -- Politics and government.
- Rwanda -- Politics and government.
- Rwanda -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
- Ethnic relations.
- Genocide.
- Hutu (African people) -- Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against.
- Rwanda.
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