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.
| ISBN: | 9781107678842 |
| Publication date: | 20th March 2014 |
| Author: | Bruce S Professor Hall |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 360 pages |
| Series: | African Studies |
| Genres: |
African history Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Social groups: religious groups and communities |
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.
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960 features in the following genres: African history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social groups: religious groups and communities
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960 is available in Paperback
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960 was written by Bruce S Professor Hall and published by Cambridge University Press
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960 has 360 pages
Yes it is part of African Studies series
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