The politics of race and nation: Citizenship and Africanization in Tanganyika

Aminzade, Ronald

doi:10.1016/s0198-8719(00)80024-1

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“…During the initial debate over citizenship in 1961 the Tanzanian legislature was bitterly divided over whether to define citizenship in terms of territorial residence or on the basis of race. Proponents of a citizenship that did not distinguish on the basis of racial groups managed to pass an inclusive law, despite strong opposition from advocates of racial nationalism who wanted to deny citizenship to Asian-Tanzanians and proclaimed ''Africa for the Africans'' (Aminzade 2000).…”

Section: Racial Formation and The Dilemma Of National Identity In Tanmentioning

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Nation‐building in post‐colonial nation‐states: the cases of Tanzania and Fiji

Larson

Aminzade

2008

Int Social Sci J

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Building on our comparative research about policies and politics of redress in Tanzania and Fiji, we identify and explore nation‐building in post‐colonial ethnically and racially divided states. The historical legacies of colonial and post‐colonial state formation give rise to two issues. The problem of national identity arises from the need of post‐colonial states to overcome legacies of colonial racial formations that created strong elements of group identification. With independence, nation‐states face competing pressures to address enduring inequality but also to respond to political mobilisation, both of which may be grounded in group identities. The dilemma of democratic legitimacy derives from the competing pressures of nation‐states to follow global norms of behaviour while responding to the domestic electorate. In such instances, states may be judged on different, incompatible criteria. Because national identity did not grow in tandem with the administrative apparatus of the state in these societies, the state may become spoils for political victors, prolonging existing divisions. Overcoming these problems will require enlightened leadership, both domestically and internationally.

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Section: Racial Formation and The Dilemma Of National Identity In Tanmentioning

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Nation‐building in post‐colonial nation‐states: the cases of Tanzania and Fiji

Larson

Aminzade

2008

Int Social Sci J

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“…In this sense, as Manzo (1996) claims, a nation can always be remade by new narratives which redefine identity and shift the boundaries between national and alien. The trajectory of nation-building is a historical outcome of how the political leaders imagine their community through the politics of nation and race (Aminzade 2000). The history of Korean migration and settlement in northeast China through the politics of nation and race foreshadowed Korean dual identityformation which arose from the tension between ethnic and political identities with the establishment of the PRC.…”

Section: Colonial Racial Politics and The Historical Origin Of Dual Nmentioning

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The Dual National Identity of the Korean Minority in China: The Politics of Nation and Race and the Imagination of Ethnicity

Kang

2008

Studies Ethnicity & National

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This article explores the historical changes in the national identity of the Korean minority in China from the period of Japanese colonial invasion through to the present. Existing studies have taken an ethno‐cultural approach to the Korean minority's dual identity, but they have ignored the importance of political identity‐formation which creates, re‐creates, and transforms national identity. The Korean minority's national identity has been determined by political and economic factors rather than ethnic and cultural backgrounds. In this regard, the Korean minority's double‐minded self‐understanding of its own nationhood has shifted from an ethnicity‐centred dual identity to a nationality‐centred dual identity. This article notes that the Korean minority's national identity has been created and re‐created by political identity‐formation, and its imagination of ethnicity has been transformed through this political process.

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“…He reminded those advocating a racial definition of citizenship of the universalistic principles enunciated by the UN, which legitimated territory, not race, as the basis for citizenship in new nations (Tanganyika National Assembly Debates 1961:326). Julius Nyerere's 1964 declaration that Africanization was dead and that Asians and Europeans would be allowed to join TANU generated intense protest, including an abortive military uprising, the repression of which temporarily put an end to the public debate over racial issues (Aminzade 2000). Individuals and political parties advocating racial nationalism fell victim to laws instituting a single‐party state and restricting freedom of association and assembly.…”

Section: Tanzania: Racial Nationalism and Indigenizationmentioning

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Nation-States Confront the Global: Discourses of Indigenous Rights in Fiji and Tanzania

Larson

Aminzade

2007

The Sociological Quarterly

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How do global issue constructions serve as resources for actors engaged in domestic political contention, and what does the appropriation of global ideas by domestic actors imply about the spread of global culture? To contribute to knowledge about conflict-based diffusion of global ideas, we examine the histories of global constructions of indigenous rights and national debates about indigenous rights in Fiji and Tanzania. While global models of indigenous rights emphasize self-determination for nondominant, culturally distinct groups at risk from the nation-state, advocates for indigenization policies in Fiji and Tanzania have argued for state policies to entrench political and economic rights for majority or near-majority groups that were well integrated into the nation-state. Although transnationally connected indigenous rights organizations have a greater presence in Tanzania than in Fiji, actors in Fiji remain more engaged with changes in international indigenous rights discourse than their counterparts in Tanzania. This difference reflects variations in the leverage global culture offered in the two cases because of its externality to national political debates. In Fiji, actors appropriated global culture as a means to internationalize a domestic dispute, while in Tanzania the impetus for indigenization came from global economic pressures. Our findings imply that conflict-based diffusion concentrates agency with respect to the use of global legal discourses in domestic actors rather than the globally connected actors and experts who carry global culture in consensus-based diffusion.

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The politics of race and nation: Citizenship and Africanization in Tanganyika

Cited by 30 publications

References 16 publications

Nation‐building in post‐colonial nation‐states: the cases of Tanzania and Fiji

Nation‐building in post‐colonial nation‐states: the cases of Tanzania and Fiji

The Dual National Identity of the Korean Minority in China: The Politics of Nation and Race and the Imagination of Ethnicity

Nation-States Confront the Global: Discourses of Indigenous Rights in Fiji and Tanzania

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