War of words, war of stones : racial thought and violence in colonial Zanzibar

The Swahili coast of Africa is often described as a paragon of transnational culture and racial fluidity. Yet, during a brief period in the 1960s, Zanzibar became deeply divided along racial lines as intellectuals and activists, engaged in bitter debates about their nation's future, ignited a deadly conflict that spread across the island. War of Words, War of Stones explores how violently enforced racial boundaries arose from Zanzibar's entangled history. Jonathon Glassman challenges explanations that assume racial thinking in the colonial world reflected only Western ideas. He shows how Africans crafted competing ways of categorizing race from local tradition and engagement with the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. 9780253005045-1......Page 1 9780253005045-2......Page 8 9780253005045-3......Page 10 9780253005045-4......Page 14 9780253005045-6......Page 16 9780253005045-7......Page 36 9780253005045-9......Page 86 9780253005045-10......Page 116 9780253005045-11......Page 158 9780253005045-13......Page 188 9780253005045-14......Page 239 9780253005045-15......Page 273 9780253005045-16......Page 291 9780253005045-17......Page 312 9780253005045-18......Page 314 9780253005045-19......Page 390 9780253005045-20......Page 400 Rethinking race in the colonial world The creation of a racial state A secular intelligentsia and the origins of exclusionary ethnic nationalism Subaltern intellectuals and the rise of racial nationalism Politics and civil society during the newspaper wars Rumor, race, and crime Violence as racial discourse "June" as chosen trauma Conclusion and epilogue : remaking race. Race and racial thinking on the Swahili coast