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Ethnicity and the Colonial State: Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1850-1960)

Ethnicity and the Colonial State: Finding and Representing Group Identifications in a Coastal West African and Global Perspective (1850-1960)

Keese, Alexander

Hardcover

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 9004307346
ISBN13: 9789004307346
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 4 2015
Pages: 378
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Ethnicity and the Colonial State analyses, through a comparison of three West African communities (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), the ways in which ethnic labels and arguments are used (or omitted) in dealings with colonial administrations. It follows these strategies and choices over more than a century, between the conquest periods and independence. Where state structures were weak as a factor of group cohesion, ethnic arguments were especially likely to come into play. The analysis discusses internal fissures and conflicting interests within the communities as other incentives for ethnic coalition-building. The observations made in this book are put into the context of a global historical perspective, for which ethnicity has so far remained a badly defined concept.

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