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Imperial Identities

Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in Colonial Algeria. Society & Culture in the Modern Middle East

By (author) Patricia M. E. Lorcin
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Published: 31st Dec 1999
Dimensions: w 138mm h 216mm d 24mm
Weight: 485g
ISBN-10: 1860643760
ISBN-13: 9781860643767
Barcode No: 9781860643767
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Synopsis
This account of Algerian history explores the process through which ethnic categories and cultural distinctions were developed and used as instruments of social control in a colonial society. Lorcin examines the circumstances which gave rise to, and the influences which shaped, the colonial images of "good" Kabyle and "bad" Arab (usually referred to as the Kabyle Myth) in Algeria. She demonstrates how these images were used to negate the underlying beliefs and values of the dominated society and to impose French cultural, social and political values. The evolution of ethnic categories over time is also traced, and Lorcin reveals their inherently unstable nature and the continual process of redefinition, in accordance with circumstance and political or social expediency.

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