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When Victims Become Killers : Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda / Mahmood Mamdani.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691193830
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  • 967.57104 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface to the 2020 Edition -- Preface and Acknowledgments: Decolonizing Area Studies -- Introduction:Thinking about Genocide -- Chapter One. Defining the Crisis of Postcolonial Citizenship: Settler and Native as Political Identities -- Chapter Two. The Origins of Hutu and Tutsi -- Chapter Three. The Racialization of the Hutu/Tutsi Difference under Colonialism -- Chapter Four .The “Social Revolution” of 1959 -- Chapter Five. The Second Republic: Redefining Tutsi from Race to Ethnicity -- Chapter Six. The Politics of Indigeneity in Uganda: Background to the RPF Invasion -- Chapter Seven. The Civil War and the Genocide -- Chapter Eight. Tutsi Power in Rwanda and the Citizenship Crisis in Eastern Congo -- Conclusion. Political Reform after Genocide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide“When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population.” So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement was the realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including judges, doctors, priests, and friends. Rejecting easy explanations of the Rwandan genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, When Victims Become Killers situates the tragedy in its proper context. Mahmood Mamdani coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutu to turn so brutally on their neighbors. In so doing, Mamdani usefully broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa and provides a direction for preventing similar future tragedies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface to the 2020 Edition -- Preface and Acknowledgments: Decolonizing Area Studies -- Introduction:Thinking about Genocide -- Chapter One. Defining the Crisis of Postcolonial Citizenship: Settler and Native as Political Identities -- Chapter Two. The Origins of Hutu and Tutsi -- Chapter Three. The Racialization of the Hutu/Tutsi Difference under Colonialism -- Chapter Four .The “Social Revolution” of 1959 -- Chapter Five. The Second Republic: Redefining Tutsi from Race to Ethnicity -- Chapter Six. The Politics of Indigeneity in Uganda: Background to the RPF Invasion -- Chapter Seven. The Civil War and the Genocide -- Chapter Eight. Tutsi Power in Rwanda and the Citizenship Crisis in Eastern Congo -- Conclusion. Political Reform after Genocide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide“When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population.” So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement was the realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including judges, doctors, priests, and friends. Rejecting easy explanations of the Rwandan genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, When Victims Become Killers situates the tragedy in its proper context. Mahmood Mamdani coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutu to turn so brutally on their neighbors. In so doing, Mamdani usefully broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa and provides a direction for preventing similar future tragedies.

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