Taifa : making nation and race in urban Tanzania / James R. Brennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brennan, James R., Dr.

Series:

New African histories series.

New African histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam--History.

Ethnicity.

Nationalism--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam--History.

Nationalism.

Urbanization--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam--History.

Urbanization.

Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)--Race relations--History.

Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).

Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Native and non-native: colonial urbanization and the legal foundations of identity

Identity 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-281) and index.

ISBN:

9780821444177

0821444174

OCLC:

804048994