A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960The 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. |
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Contents
| 1 | |
Part One RACE ALONG THE DESERT EDGE c 16001900 | 27 |
Part Two RACE AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER c 18301936 | 105 |
Part Three THE MORALITY OF DESCENT c 18931940 | 173 |
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| Title | A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960 Volume 115 of African Studies |
| Author | Bruce S. Hall |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1139499084, 9781139499088 |
| Subjects | › › History / Africa / General History / Modern / General Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism Social Science / Islamic Studies |
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