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Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Race in Colonial Algeria
Contributor(s): Lorcin, Patricia M. E. (Author), Roberts, Hugh (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0803249713     ISBN-13: 9780803249714
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.50  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - North
- Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations
- Social Science | Sociology - General
Dewey: 960
LCCN: 2014940505
Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.51" W x 8.75" (1.05 lbs) 394 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - African
 
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Imperial Identities is a groundbreaking book that addresses identity formation in colonial Algeria of two predominant ethnicities and analyzes French attitudes in the context of nineteenth-century ideologies. Patricia M. E. Lorcin explores the process through which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions were developed and used as instruments of social control in colonial society. She examines the circumstances that gave rise to and the influences that shaped the colonial images of "good" Kabyle and "bad" Arab (usually referred to as the Kabyle myth) in Algeria. In this new edition of Imperial Identities, Lorcin addresses the related scholarship that has appeared since the book's original publication, looks at postindependence issues relevant to the Arab/Berber question, and discusses the developments in Algeria and France connected to Arab/Berber politics, including the 1980 Berber Spring and the 1992-2002 civil war. The new edition also contains a full and updated bibliography. Patricia M. E. Lorcin is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota and the author of numerous books, including Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia, Algeria and France 1800-2000, and France and Its Spaces of War. Hugh Roberts is the Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts University and the author of Berber Government: The Kabyle Polity in Pre-Colonial Algeria.