Traditions Can Be Changed

Tanzanian Nationalist Debates around Decolonizing »Race« and Gender, 1960s-1970s
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5950-4
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 274 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Global- und Kolonialgeschichte

Whether and to what extent African states and societies have been able to break away from colonial impact is a still contentious issue.

Harald Barre considers newspapers and academic activism in Tanzania as forums in which the project of an independent African nation was shaped through heated debates. Examining the changing discourses on race and gender in the 1960s and 1970s, he reveals that equating difference with inequality in the national narrative was fiercely contested. Pervasive images rooted in colonialism were thus challenged and in some cases fundamentally transformed by journalists, students, (inter)national scholars, (inter)national events and the promise of an egalitarian socialist state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barre, Harald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Harald Barre, born in 1984, works at the Volkswagen Stiftung in Hannover. He submitted his PhD thesis at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.