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Author Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-

Title When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda / Mahmood Mamdani.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  967.57104 M31w    ---  Available
Description xvi, 364 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-355) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
Hutu (African people) -- Rwanda -- Politics and government.
Rwanda -- Politics and government.
Rwanda -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 0691058210 (alk. paper)

 
    
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