Jonathon Glassman, "War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar"In...na Un....sity P...s | 2011-02-21 | ISBN: 0253355850 | 414 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB
The Swahili coast of Africa is often described as a paragon of transnational culture and racial fluidity. Yet, during a brief period in the 1960s, Zanzibar became deeply divided along racial lines as intellectuals and activists, engaged in bitter debates about their nation's future, ignited a deadly conflict that spread across the island. War of Words, War of Stones explores how violently enforced racial boundaries arose from Zanzibar's entangled history. Jonathon Glassman challenges explanations that assume racial thinking in the colonial world reflected only Western ideas. He shows how Africans crafted competing ways of categorizing race from local tradition and engagement with the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.
"A boldly conceived and meticulously conducted study that throws down a challenge to the writing of African politics in the twentieth century.... sure to unsettle, provoke, and guide for years to come." -- Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University
(Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University 2011)
"In this brave and powerful book Glassman shows that African thinking about nationhood wasn't abstract, but sometimes rooted in ideas about history, culture, and physical bodies. And while race and ethnicity were social constructions made on the ground, that ground itself was fissured by claims and disclaims of ancestry and birthplace and by weakened plantation economies and the evictions of squatters. With painstaking care and painful clarity Glassman maps that ground, on which ideas about race and ideas about nation were translated into terror and trauma." -- Luise White, University of Florida
(Luise White, University of Florida )
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