Patricia M. E. Lorcin, "Imperial Identities: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Race in Colonial Algeria, New Edition"
English | ISBN: 0803249713 | 2014 | 394 pages | PDF | 9 MB
English | ISBN: 0803249713 | 2014 | 394 pages | PDF | 9 MB
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.
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