TY - BOOK ID - 103632312 TI - Taifa : making nation and race in urban Tanzania PY - 2012 SN - 0821420011 0821444174 PB - Athens : Ohio University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Ethnicity KW - Nationalism KW - Urbanization KW - History. KW - Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) KW - Race relations KW - Social conditions. KW - Cities and towns, Movement to KW - Urban development KW - Urban systems KW - Cities and towns KW - Social history KW - Sociology, Rural KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Urban policy KW - Rural-urban migration KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Multiculturalism KW - Cultural pluralism KW - City of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) KW - Dār es Salām (Tanzania) KW - Daressalaam (Tanzania) KW - دار السلام (Tanzania) KW - Dār al-Salām (Tanzania) KW - Dar äs Salam (Tanzania) KW - Горад Дар-эс-Салам (Tanzania) KW - Horad Dar-ės-Salam (Tanzania) KW - Дар-эс-Салам (Tanzania) KW - Дар ес-Салаам (Tanzania) KW - Daressalam (Tanzania) KW - Νταρ ες Σαλάμ (Tanzania) KW - Daresalamo (Tanzania) KW - Dárasalám (Tanzania) KW - דאר א-סלאם (Tanzania) KW - Dar a-Salam (Tanzania) KW - Дар-эс-Салам шаары (Tanzania) KW - Dar-ės-Salam shaary (Tanzania) KW - Dāresalāma (Tanzania) KW - Dar es Salamas (Tanzania) KW - Дар ес Салам (Tanzania) KW - ダルエスサラーム (Tanzania) KW - Daruesusarāmu (Tanzania) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103632312 AB - Taifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam. Nation and race-both translatable as taifa in Swahili-were not simply universal ideas brought to Africa by European colonizers, as previous studies assume. They were instead categories crafted by local African thinkers to make sense of deep inequalities, particularly those between local Africans and Indian immigrants. Taifa shows how nation and race became the key political categories to guide colonial and ER -