POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Great Lakes Region, Hamites, Tutsi
21 Jul 2014
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Map - not much all readings up until goldsmith must know authors names/arguments. t/f. Corporatization of identity that is, it doesn"t matter what actually is. People just assume. (the aren"t able t see differentiation) you look for how people will behave based on how they look. Hamiets migrated to rwanda, from somewhere from the. Hamitic myth: was applies to any region in africa where there appeared to be evidence of organized state life. Assumption was these hamites came from somewhere else and when arrived in (great lakes region) brought w them technological and organizational knowhow. and this is what allowed them to dominate the region. So they are foreigners, came from somewhere else (ethiopia. yemen) and they come to dominate the people. Plays into racism, saying that the ppl who are from africa are not able to care for them selvesthey come and see there is an organized political life and they think.
