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Brennan, James R., Dr.

Taifa : making nation and race in urban Tanzania / James R. Brennan. - Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012. - xi, 292 p. : maps ; 23 cm. - New African histories . - New African histories series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-281) and index.

Native and non-native: colonial urbanization and the legal foundations of identity -- Identity and social structure in interwar Dar es Salaam -- Posing the urban question: war, state intervention, and the creation of urban entitlement -- Continental shift: civilization, racial thought, and the intellectual foundations of an African nationalism -- Nationalist thought, racial caricature, and urban citizenship in postcolonial Tanzania.

ISBN: 9780821420010 (pb : alk. paper) 0821420011 (pb : alk. paper) 9780821444177 (electronic) 0821444174 (electronic)

Standard No.: 40021112079

LCCN: 2012004955

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethnicity--History.--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam
Nationalism--History.--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam
Urbanization--History.--Tanzania--Dar es Salaam

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)--Race relations--History.
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)--Social conditions.

LC Class. No.: DT449.D3 / B74 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 967.8232