AFS 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hutu, Tutsi
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Singular, fixed, bounded ,marked, politicized identities: reason: political and economic management- identity, classify/define, divide and rule. The role of african ethnic entrpreneurs: artchitects. African elites- ordinary africans for security, solidarity, resource, power, dealing with the state religious. America: melting pot more than 400 ethnic groups (nigeria 200) cannot say the same about other countries. What is that basis of policitcs and citizenship. Despite artificiality, foreigness, and legitimazy of nation-state system. We have created italy, now we must create italians- massi(cid:373)o d azeglio. Assimilation (melting pot) vs. cultural and poltical pluralism.