A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960

[...]Hall's view that constructivist interpretations of race and ethnicity are based on the "discursive" power of the colonial state is overstated. [...]Hall's intellectual history of race in the Sahel is based on his decision to treat race, rather than slavery or genealogy or pr...

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Published in:The International Journal of African Historical Studies 2012, Vol.45 (2), p.319
Main Author: Searing, James
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Ethnicity
Genealogy
Legal arguments
Postcolonialism
Slavery
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Summary:[...]Hall's view that constructivist interpretations of race and ethnicity are based on the "discursive" power of the colonial state is overstated. [...]Hall's intellectual history of race in the Sahel is based on his decision to treat race, rather than slavery or genealogy or primacy in Islam, as the key to the intellectual tradition he examines in Part 1 .
ISSN:0361-7882
2326-3016