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Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani
msktprsns's review
5.0
One of the most important books I've read. It already has - and I suspect it will continue to change how I see the world, which is just about the highest praise I can give. While I don't necessarily buy the specific solutions he suggests for dealing with the various cases he highlights, his framework for understanding the past and a potential future are new to me, and compelling.
viralmysteries's review
informative
medium-paced
4.75
An absolutely phenomenal piece of scholarship. Mamdani has excellently laid out the way that different settler-states, from the U.S. to South Africa to Israel, have built their regimes of violence and oppression, and how different strategies for decolonization might be realized. A text many will no doubt be returning to in the future.
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