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Monsoon (2025) 3 (1): 107–109.
Published: 01 May 2025
...Neelima Jeychandran [email protected] Shobana Shankar , An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India, and the Spectre of Race . New York : Oxford University Press , 2021 . Copyright © 2025 The Africa Institute 2025 The book An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 46–59.
Published: 01 November 2023
... examines how race shaped popular conversations on Mauritian political independence through two areas of analysis. The first is a discussion of Mauricianisme, a mid-century project of building a multiracial Mauritian political identity that could accommodate and integrate its African and Asian components...
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Published: 01 November 2024
Shiraz Bayjoo, Politique Des Races Part 2, 2019. Acrylic and resin on wood, Sapele Wood frame, gold hand painting. 75 × 175 × 3 cm. Credit: Sharjah Art foundation/Shiraz Bayjoo/Jhaveri Contemporary. More
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 2–21.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Pier M. Larson Abstract Born on Ile de France in late 1799 to a French father and a free mixed-race mother from Fort-Dauphin in southeast Madagascar, Aristide Corroller gained an education at Port-Louis but departed to pursue a political career in Madagascar after 1815. Corroller first assisted his...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 75–91.
Published: 01 November 2023
... as forms of sexual bondage occurring within particular political circumstances and historical realities. For indeed, both objectifying practices assumed a variety of meanings in colonial and postrevolutionary Zanzibar. When conjugating suria and ndoa within the complex grammar of race, class, and gender...
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Monsoon (2025) 3 (1): 43–62.
Published: 01 May 2025
...: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2024). Berrada and Siddiqi discuss the exhibition and works in relation to questions of land, migration, ecologies, solidarities, archives, craft, race, and feminism raised in the book. [email protected] omarbrd...
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Monsoon (2025) 3 (1): 30–42.
Published: 01 May 2025
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2025 The Africa Institute 2025 Islam race racial thought Muslim politics Kenya coast After a proposal for a ten-mile strip of coastal territory to not be joined with the rest of the Kenya Colony during Kenya's independence was dismissed, a community...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 60–74.
Published: 01 November 2023
... have a lot of prejudices. It's unfortunate. ND: I was thinking more of the ethnicity question that was an important part of your presentation on the crisis in Madagascar. What would you say is the relationship between race and ethnicity? Is the tension in Madagascar a question of race...
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Monsoon (2025) 3 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 May 2025
... the Mediterranean world and citizenship was extended to all subjects by 212 CE point to an uncontroversial fact: being Roman was not a matter of ethnicity, race, or blood in the manner that modern empire-builders and their postcolonial successors would understand the term. The inheritance of Rome in Late...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 116–118.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Shiraz Bayjoo, Politique Des Races Part 2, 2019. Acrylic and resin on wood, Sapele Wood frame, gold hand painting. 75 × 175 × 3 cm. Credit: Sharjah Art foundation/Shiraz Bayjoo/Jhaveri Contemporary. ...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 10–16.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the visible tips of the iceberg. Why is it important to recite yet again the importance of the Indian Ocean and its plural sociology in this conference on race and slavery? It is important because the range of relations and experiences found in this arena have been reduced by a notion of the plural...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 119–120.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of the ontology of unfreedom, and a meditation on race and racial identity formation. Above all, though, it is a strident call for an oceanic perspective when approaching questions of historical power, with the Indian Ocean offered as a salient space to do so. The “brininess” of Boer's title posits...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the achievements of the human race,” they would “join up with others in the exciting adventure of man.” 28 Like Nehru, Frantz Fanon clothed his contempt for local “backwardness” in secular concepts of shared humanity. In The Wretched of the Earth, first published in 1961, Fanon expressed profound...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 22–32.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and their potential for importance. But they are starved of resources or suffer from inefficient administration both in their own municipal governance and insofar as their relations with their central governments are concerned. And still others race, with themselves and with regional competitors, toward politically...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 32–49.
Published: 01 November 2024
... females. Regardless of race and place of origin, most of the male applicants were pearl fishers who during the off season engaged in livestock care or domestic service, while most of the females worked in domestic service regardless of the season. By contrast with females, who lived and worked in domestic...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 26–45.
Published: 01 November 2023
... enterprise: theirs was a constant race to eke out subsistence beyond the rental fee they owed to the rickshaw owner. They had more freedom than an employee, but in exchange accepted greater vulnerability to market conditions. Not quite wage-laborer, nor petty bourgeois, the rickshaw puller posed a conundrum...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 74–87.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of their history across the Indian Ocean. The historiography of slavery in the Indian Ocean has made remarkable strides in recent decades, enriching our understanding with textured narratives that reconceptualized the prevailing Atlantic paradigm and its articulations of race. In analyzing the processes...
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Monsoon (2025) 3 (1): 63–78.
Published: 01 May 2025
... invasion informs sentiment and anxiety about the internal boundary of the Omani nation and where back-from-Africa Omanis fit within it. In fact, central to the whole discussion of Oman's connection to Zanzibar is the issue of how primordial ties of ancestry, race, and tribe provide a sociocultural matrix...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 May 2024
...): 11 – 25 . https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.162.2.11 . Brathwaite Kamau . “ Metaphors of Underdevelopment: A Proem for Hernan Cortez .” New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly 7 , no. 4 (1985): 453 – 76 . Brioni Simone . The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 58–67.
Published: 01 May 2024
... . “ Conceptualising Archipelagic Memory: An Online Seminar with Michael Rothberg and Vijaya Teelock, in Conversation with Ananya Jahanara Kabir .” YouTube, February 1 , 2022 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxOCG9qa2mM . Beunel Rosa M. C. “ Creolising Archipelagos: Gender, Race and Spatiality...