Race et ethnicité dans le contexte africain
The paper discusses « race » and « ethnicity » as political identities, imposed through the force of the colonial law, and reproduced in the postcolonial period. In Africa, non-natives were tagged as races, governed under civil law (a discriminating but single law), whereas natives were said to b...
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2005
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
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discusses « race » and « ethnicity » as political identities, imposed through the force of the
colonial law, and reproduced in the postcolonial period. In Africa, non-natives were tagged as races, governed under civil law (a discriminating but single law), whereas natives
were said to belong to tribes, each of them under its supposedly customary law, suited to
its separated cultural essence. The challenge now is to distinguish our notion of political
community from that of cultural community, separate the discourse on political rights
from that on cultural or historical origins, create a single political community and
citizenship from diverse cultural and historical groups and identities. |
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