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When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda

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

Author

Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-

Publication

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

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xvi, 364 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century
Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against > History > Rwanda > 20th century
Hutu (African people) > Rwanda > Politics and government
Rwanda > Politics and government
Rwanda > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century

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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.

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