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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2001]
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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.