Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xi, 292 p)
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maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780821420010
Serie:
New African Histories Ser.
Inhalt:
Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Nation and race-both translatable as taifa in Swahili-were not simply universal ideas brought to Africa by European colonizers, as previous studies assume. They were instead categories crafted by local African thinkers to make sense of deep inequalities, particularly those between local Africans and Indian immigrants. Taifa shows how nation and race became the key political categories to guide colonial and
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-281) and index
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Native and non-native: colonial urbanization and the legal foundations of identityIdentity and social structure in interwar Dar es Salaam -- Posing the urban question: war, state intervention, and the creation of urban entitlement -- Continental shift: civilization, racial thought, and the intellectual foundations of an African nationalism -- Nationalist thought, racial caricature, and urban citizenship in postcolonial Tanzania.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780821444177
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780821420010
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Taifa : Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania
Sprache:
Englisch
