2010/09/01 by Mohamed Hassan Mohamed · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #African history and culture studies #African history and culture analysis #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Analogy #Historiography #Colonialism #Abolitionism #Textuality #History #Ethnography #Object (grammar) #Sociology #Gender studies #Literature #Anthropology #Political science #Law #Philosophy #Art #Epistemology #Archaeology #Linguistics #Politics
paper · doi:10.1080/13629387.2010.486573
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This article is the first segment of a two-part project that explores the role of textuality in scholarly conceptions of the origin of black Africans living in the Maghrib – the so-called Haratin. In this part I sought to identify the textual threads linking the current Anglophone historiography to colonial ethnography and, ultimately, nineteenth-century abolitionism. It shows how entrapment in a racialist conception of Africa and African, and analogy to the transatlantic slave trade have influenced Anglophone conceptions of the object of the (trans-Saharan) caravan trade and, hence, the origin of black Africans of the Maghrib.