War of words, war of stones : racial thought and violence in colonial Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glassman.

Contributor:

Jonathon..

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Tanzania--Zanzibar--History.

Violence.

Zanzibar--History--20th century.

Zanzibar.

Zanzibar--Ethnic relations--History.

Zanzibar--Race relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1版.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Rethinking race in the colonial world

The creation of a racial state

A secular intelligentsia and the origins of exclusionary ethnic nationalism

Subaltern intellectuals and the rise of racial nationalism

Politics and civil society during the newspaper wars

Rumor, race, and crime

Violence as racial discourse

"June" as chosen trauma

Conclusion and epilogue : remaking race.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-253-00504-3

OCLC:

707092578