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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001], ©2001.
Subjects:
Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century.
Rwanda > Politics and government.
Rwandan Genocide, Rwanda, 1994.
Rwanda > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against > Rwanda > History > 20th century.
Hutu (African people) > Rwanda > Politics and government.
Physical Description:xvi, 364 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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.