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When Victims Become Killers : Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda /

"Rejecting easy explanations of the genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, one of Africa's best-known intellectuals situates the tragedy in its proper context. He coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Thinking about genocide
  • Defining the crisis of postcolonial citizenship: settler and native as political identities
  • The origins of Hutu and Tutsi
  • The racialization of the Hutu/Tutsi difference under colonialism
  • The "Social Revolution" of 1959
  • The Second Republic: redefining Tutsi from race to ethnicity
  • The politics of indigeneity in Uganda: background to the RPF invasion
  • The Civil War and the Genocide
  • Tutsi power in Rwanda and the citizenship crisis in Eastern Congo
  • Conclusion: Political reform after genocide.