War of Words, War of Stones

Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar

Jonathon Glassman

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Indiana University Press
21 February 2011

Land rights

The Swahili coast of Africa is often described as a paragon of transnational culture and racial fluidity. Yet, during a brief period in the 1960s, Zanzibar became deeply divided along racial lines as intellectuals and activists, engaged in bitter debates about their nation's future, ignited a deadly conflict that spread across the island. War of Words, War of Stones explores how violently enforced racial boundaries arose from Zanzibar's entangled history. Jonathon Glassman challenges explanations that assume racial thinking in the colonial world reflected only Western ideas. He shows how Africans crafted competing ways of categorizing race from local tradition and engagement with the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.

By: Jonathon Glassman
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780253222800
ISBN 10: 025322280X
Pages: 414
Publication Date: 21 February 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Usage Part 1. Introduction 1. Rethinking Race in the Colonial World 2. The Creation of a Racial State Part 2. War of Words 3. A Secular Intelligentsia and the Origins of Exclusionary Ethnic Nationalism 4. Subaltern Intellectuals and the Rise of Racial Nationalism 5. Politics and Civil Society during the Newspaper Wars Part 3. War of Stones 6. Rumor, Race, and Crime 7. Violence as Racial Discourse 8. ""June"" as Chosen Trauma Conclusion and Epilogue: Remaking Race Glossary Notes List of References Index"

Jonathon Glassman is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. He is author of Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856–1888, which was awarded the Herskovits Prize in African Studies.

Reviews for War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar

"""A boldly conceived and meticulously conducted study that throws down a challenge to the writing of African politics in the twentieth century... sure to unsettle, provoke, and guide for years to come."" Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University ""In this brave and powerful book Glassman shows that African thinking about nationhood wasn't abstract, but sometimes rooted in ideas about history, culture, and physical bodies. And while race and ethnicity were social constructions made on the ground, that ground itself was fissured by claims and disclaims of ancestry and birthplace and by weakened plantation economies and the evictions of squatters. With painstaking care and painful clarity Glassman maps that ground, on which ideas about race and ideas about nation were translated into terror and trauma."" Luise White, University of Florida"

Short-listed for African Studies Association Melville J. Herskovits Award 2012
Shortlisted for African Studies Association Melville J. Herskovits Award 2012.
Winner of American Historical Association Martin A. Klein Prize in African History 2011
Winner of American Historical Association Martin A. Klein Prize in African History 2011.
Winner of Winner, 2011 Martin A. Klein Award, American Historical AssociationFinalist, 2012 Herskovits Award.
Winner of Winner, 2011 Martin A. Klein Award, American Historical AssociationFinalist, 2012 Herskovits Award.