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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Francis Mading Deng |
| ISBN: | 0815717946 9780815717942 0815717938 9780815717935 |
| OCLC Number: | 30777072 |
| Description: | ix, 577 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. Background. 1. Overview of the Conflict -- Pt. 2. Evolution of Identities. 2. Northern Identity: Assimilation. 3. Southern Identity: Resistance -- Pt. 3. Quest for Nationhood. 4. Genesis of Divided Nationalism. 5. Northern Dominance: Colonialism Revisited. 6. The Emerging Southern Identity -- Pt. 4. North-South Microcosm. 7. The Ngok Dinka. 8. Crisis at the Crossroads -- Pt. 5. External Dimension. 9. Dilemmas of External Linkages -- Pt. 6. The Crisis in Perspective. 10. Boundaries of Identity. 11. Perceptions of the Crisis -- 12. Conclusions. |
| Responsibility: | Francis M. Deng. |
Abstract:
War of Visions sheds light on the anomalies of the identity conflict and presents competing models: the Arab-Islamic mold of the North, representing two thirds of the country in territory and population, and the remaining Southern third, which is indigenously African in race, ethnicity, culture, and religion, with an educated Christianized elite. But although the North is popularly defined as racially Arab, the people are a hybrid of Arab and African elements, with the African physical characteristics predominating in most tribal groups.
This configuration is the result of a historical process that stratified races, cultures, and religions and fostered a "passing" into the Arab-Islamic mold that discriminated against the African race and cultures. The outcome of this process is a polarization that is based more on myth than on the realities of the situation. The identity crisis has been further complicated by the fact that Northerners want to fashion the country on the basis of their Arab-Islamic identity, while the South is decidedly resistant.
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