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When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda
Study of the genocide of 1994: colonial rule turned Hutu and Tutsi into a “native” and a “settler” race, and the genocide was the violence of former victims who claimed the country as natives; Mamdani reads it with Arendt on the colonial history of genocide and with Fanon on the violence of the colonised.
Connections
Builds on
- The Origins of Totalitarianism1951 · Hannah Arendt
- The Wretched of the Earth1961 · Frantz Fanon
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