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Taifa : making nation and race in urban Tanzania /

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 Euro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brennan, James R., Dr
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2012.
Colección:New African histories series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.