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This study explores the contradictory character of African nationalism as it unfolded over decades of Tanzanian history in conflicts over public policies.
List of contents
1. Introduction; Part I. The Struggle for Independence and Birth of a Nation: 2. Colonialism, racism, and modernity; 3. Foreigners and nation building; 4. Race and the nation-building project; Part II. The Socialist Experiment: 5. African socialism: the challenges of nation building; 6. Socialism, self-reliance, and foreigners; 7. Nationalism, state socialism, and the politics of race; Part III. Neoliberalism, Global Capitalism, and the Nation-State: 8. Neoliberalism and the transition from state socialism to capitalism; 9. Neoliberalism, foreigners, and globalization; 10. Neoliberalism, race, and the global economy; 11. Conclusion: race, nation, and citizenship in historical and comparative perspective.
About the author
Ronald Aminzade is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of Lund, and the University of Amsterdam. His research on the political consequences of capitalist development in nineteenth-century France has been published in numerous articles and in two books, Ballots and Barricades and Class, Politics, and Early Industrial Capitalism. He is the co-editor of The Social Worlds of Higher Education (1999), on the sociology of education, and Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2001), on social movements and contentious politics. His current research focuses on nationalism and the politics of economic development in East Africa.
Summary
This study explores the contradictory character of African nationalism as it unfolded over decades of Tanzanian history in conflicts over public policies. These policy debates reflected a history of racial oppression and foreign domination and were shaped by a quest for economic development, racial justice, and national self-reliance.
