A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 (African Studies) . Bruce S. Hall

A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 (African Studies)



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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Page: 0
ISBN: 1107002877, 9781107002876

"Bruce Hall embarked on a great project to understand why racial arguments were so common in West Africa's political contexts and yet so invisible in history books. His book is an objective and nuanced analysis of race relations. Anyone who wants to know about race relations in West Africa must read this brilliant study." - Chouki El Hamel, Arizona State University

"In this provocative and audacious challenge to the most influential paradigm of 'race' in African studies - Mamdani's 'contemporary racism as colonial legacy,' Bruce Hall posits race as an atemporal language imbued with both deep historical meaning and widespread contemporary exigency. Hall brings to his analysis not only the texts of Islamic scholars, but also the voices and views of local Songhay slave-descendants and farmers. Conceptualized in the context of the present, it draws on an enormous interdisciplinary arsenal of languages, methodologies, and theories to engage with an historical concern that spans time and space - namely when, why, and how do people 'chose' racial construction to order their lives? And with what consequences? This is African history at its best because, like the world about which Hall writes, it will take its place in the ongoing dialogue about race that extends well beyond Africa." - Ann McDougall, University of Alberta This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali. On the basis of 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 community relations ever since.

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