A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 by Bruce S. Hall (English) Ha

Description: A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 by Bruce S. Hall Traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in Mali. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory and uncivilized banditry. This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in one important place along the southern edge of the Sahara Desert: the Niger Bend in northern Mali. Using 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 inter-African relations ever since. Author Biography Bruce S. Hall is an assistant professor at Duke University. His work appears in the Journal of North African Studies, the International Journal of African Historical Studies and the Journal of African Studies. Professor Hall previously held positions as an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and as an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University. Table of Contents Introduction; Part I. Race Along the Desert-Edge, c.1600-1900: 1. Making race in the Sahel, c.1600-1900; 2. Reading the blackness of the Sudan, c.1600-1900; Part II. Race and the Colonial Encounter, c.1830-1936: 3. Meeting the Tuareg; 4. Colonial conquest and statecraft in the Niger Bend, c.1893-1936; Part III. The Morality of Descent, 1893-1940: 5. Defending hierarchy: Tuareg arguments about authority and descent, c.1893-1940; 6. Defending slavery: the moral order of inequality, c.1893-1940; 7. Defending the river: Songhay arguments about land, c.1893-1940; Part IV. Race and Decolonization, 1940-60: 8. The racial politics of decolonization, 1940-60; Conclusion. Review Bruce Hall embarked on a great project to understand why racial arguments were so common in West Africas 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 - Mamdanis contemporary racism as colonial legacy, Bruce Hall posits race as an atemporal language imbued with both deep historical meaning and widespread contemporary exigency. [He] 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 What makes this work so outstanding is that it is for the larger part based on local Arabic source material, which ensures that the local visions of race and society are indeed local and not inferred through an interpretation of French source material ... For many of us, reading this book will mean reconsidering much of what we thought we knew about Islam, history, and society in the Sahel. Baz Lecocq, Islamic Africa "Bruce Hall embarked on a great project to understand why racial arguments were so common in West Africas 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 - Mamdanis 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 "What makes this work so outstanding is that it is for the larger part based on local Arabic source material, which ensures that the local visions of race and society are indeed local and not inferred through an interpretation of French source material ... For many of us, reading this book will mean reconsidering much of what we thought we knew about Islam, history, and society in the Sahel." Baz Lecocq, Islamic Africa Prizes Joint winner of American Historical Association Martin A. Klein Prize in African History 2012 Review Quote In this provocative and audacious challenge to the most influential paradigm of race in African studies - Mamdanis contemporary racism as colonial legacy, Bruce Hall posits race as an atemporal language imbued with both deep historical meaning and widespread contemporary exigency. [He] 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 Promotional "Headline" Traces the development of African arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in Mali. Description for Bookstore This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali. 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. Description for Library This book traces the development of arguments about race over a period of more than 350 years in the Niger Bend in northern Mali. 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. Details ISBN1107002877 Author Bruce S. Hall Short Title HIST OF RACE IN MUSLIM WEST AF Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 1107002877 ISBN-13 9781107002876 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 305.800 Series African Studies Year 2011 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 335 Series Number 115 Position Professor Publication Date 2011-06-06 Audience Professional and Scholarly AU Release Date 2011-06-06 NZ Release Date 2011-06-06 UK Release Date 2011-06-06 Illustrations 5 Maps; 7 Halftones, unspecified We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:91393678;

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