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When Victims Become Killers : Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda

Mamdani, Mahmood

Are Hutu and Tutsi old tribal enemies, or political identities shaped by colonial rule and later politics?

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Mamdani, Mahmood

Why read it

  • You will learn to separate cultural, market and political identities, and see why the difference matters
  • You will see how colonial rule turned the Hutu and Tutsi difference into a racial one
  • You will understand why dividing a country into one state per group cannot solve the problem of a minority

Who it is for

  • A reader trying to understand how the Rwandan genocide came about
  • A student of ethnic conflict who doubts the ancient hatred story
  • Someone asking who counts as a citizen in a divided country

Contents

  1. Dedication Page
  2. Preface and Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Thinking about Genocide
  4. 1. Defining the Crisis of Postcolonial Citizenship: Settler and Native as Political Identities
  5. 2. The Origins of Hutu and Tutsi
  6. 3. The Racialization of the Hutu/Tutsi Difference under Colonialism
  7. 4. The “Social Revolution” of 1959
  8. 5. The Second Republic: Redefining Tutsi from Race to Ethnicity
  9. 6. The Politics of Indigeneity in Uganda: Background to the RPF Invasion
  10. 7. The Civil War and the Genocide
  11. 8. Tutsi Power in Rwanda and the Citizenship Crisis in Eastern Congo
  12. Conclusion: Political Reform after Genocide

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