The question of ‘race’ in the pre-colonial southern Sahara

Hall, Bruce S.

doi:10.1080/13629380500336714

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“…Ḣ arā ṫīn generally occupied a space close to the nonfree end. Historically, people's positions in the hierarchy were not fixed, and they manipulated and altered the meanings and underpinnings of status and social categories (Cleaveland 2002;Hall 2005;Webb 1995). Status could be performed in a variety of ways, including by distributing wealth, claiming religious knowledge, and asserting genealogy.…”

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Making People Bigger: Wedding Exchange and the Creation of Social Value in Rural Mauritania

Wiley¹

2016

Africa Today

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Section: Social Status and Marriage In Mauritaniamentioning

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Making People Bigger: Wedding Exchange and the Creation of Social Value in Rural Mauritania

Wiley¹

2016

Africa Today

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“…Histories of slavery and race (Hall, 2005(Hall, , 2011El Hamel, 2013;Pierre, 2020;King, 2021;Gross-Wyrtzen and Gazzotti, 2021) have long entangled Mali with North Africa in general and Libya in particular. We now turn to the web of relations between Mali and Libya that have provided a platform for racialization processes that link the present with the past.…”

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Racialized Impacts of Migration Governance in Mali

Deridder,

Sylla

2024

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Perceptions of Africa as a non-racial space are belied by cases such as Mali. This article explores how racial arguments were deployed by black returnees in Bamako after their repatriation from Libya. Race, racialization processes, and racial violence were one of the cornerstones of French colonization in Mali, and then of the post-colonial state. Mali had a complex relationship with its northern neighbour Libya, for many decades a destination for Malian migrants. The fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya in 2011 created new problems, as both black Malian migrant workers and Tuareg ex-combatants were returned to the country. Both experienced, in different ways, the effects of a migration regime, influenced by European Union programmes. This article shows how racial categories and migration politics intersect in Mali, becoming mutually constituent and interrelated, and leaving various actors, institutions, processes, histories, and multiple scales entangled with each other.

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“…Hall argues convincingly that the Kunta , an influential tribe in Mauritania that traces its ancestry to a prominent Islamic figure called Uqba Iben Nafa, in constructing their racial identity based on the glorification of Arab Islamic figures and lineages. According to Hall (2005), . .…”

Section: “Where There Are Slaves the Bīḋān’s Reputation Will Never Gmentioning

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“Paradise Is Under the Feet of Your Master”

Esseissah

2015

Journal of Black Studies

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Few stories about the practice of slavery in Mauritania have received much national and international press attention as a result of the arrest and trial of Birame Ould Abeid, the President of an anti-slavery non-governmental organization (NGO) called Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania (IRA). The arrest came in relation to the burning of some outdated Islamic books of the Mālikī School of jurisprudence. These are books that IRA views as a justification for the continued enslavement of Hratin in Mauritania. The present article probes the psychological and religious dimensions of racial slavery in Mauritanian Arab-Berber society. I contend that the Arab-Berber religious scholars have developed twisted interpretations of Islam, to justify the legality of the enslavement of Hratin. I treat the instrumentalization of books-burning event by the mainstream media in Mauritania, as an attempt to suppress any oppositional voices that may subvert the dominant narrative about slavery in Mauritania.

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The question of ‘race’ in the pre-colonial southern Sahara

Cited by 19 publications

References 3 publications

Making People Bigger: Wedding Exchange and the Creation of Social Value in Rural Mauritania

Making People Bigger: Wedding Exchange and the Creation of Social Value in Rural Mauritania

Racialized Impacts of Migration Governance in Mali

“Paradise Is Under the Feet of Your Master”

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