Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Africa: The Case of Tanzania

448 Pages·2013·2.546 MB·English

by  Ronald Aminzade

Race,Nation,andCitizenshipinPostcolonialAfrica
Nationalismhasgeneratedviolence,bloodshed,andgenocide,aswellas
patriotic sentiments that encourage people to help fellow citizens and
placepublicresponsibilitiesabovepersonalinterests.Thisstudyexplores
the contradictory character of African nationalism as it unfolded over
decadesofTanzanianhistoryinconflictsoverpublicpoliciesconcerning
therightsofcitizens,foreigners,andthenation’sAsianminority.These
policydebatesreflectedahistoryofracialoppressionandforeigndom-
ination and were shaped by a quest for economic development, racial
justice,andnationalself-reliance.
Ronald Aminzade is Professor of Sociology at the University of
Minnesota. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin–
Madison, the University of Lund, and the University of Amsterdam.
Hisresearchonthepoliticalconsequencesofcapitalistdevelopmentin
nineteenth-centuryFrancehasbeenpublishedinnumerousarticlesand
in two books, Ballots and Barricades and Class, Politics, and Early
Industrial Capitalism. He is the coeditor of The Social Worlds of
Higher Education, on the sociology of education, and Silence and
Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics, on social movements and
contentiouspolitics.Hiscurrentresearchfocusesonnationalismandthe
politicsofeconomicdevelopmentinEastAfrica.

CambridgeStudiesinContentiousPolitics
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MARK BEISSINGER PrincetonUniversity
JACK A. GOLDSTONE GeorgeMasonUniversity
MICHAEL HANAGAN VassarCollege
DOUG MCADAM StanfordUniversityandCenterforAdvancedStudyinthe
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SARAH SOULE StanfordUniversity
SUZANNE STAGGENBORG UniversityofPittsburgh
SIDNEY TARROW CornellUniversity
CHARLES TILLY (D. 2008) ColumbiaUniversity
ELISABETH J. WOOD YaleUniversity
DEBORAH YASHAR PrincetonUniversity
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Race, Nation, and Citizenship
in Postcolonial Africa
The Case of Tanzania
RONALD AMINZADE
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