A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Bruce, S. Hall	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-11T07:30:14Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-10-11T07:30:14Z	-
dc.date.issued	2011	-
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-107-00287-6	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9023	-
dc.description	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 nonblackness 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,	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge	en_US
dc.subject	Blacks – Africa, West – History	en_US
dc.title	A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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