Bruce S. Hall is an assistant professor at Duke University. His work appears in the Journal of North African Studies, the International Journal of African Historical Studies and the Journal of African Studies. Professor Hall previously held positions as an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and as an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins University.
Introduction; Part I. Race Along the Desert
Edge, c.1600
1900: 1. Making race in the Sahel, c.1600
1900; 2. Reading the blackness of the Sudan, c.1600
1900; Part II. Race and the Colonial Encounter, c.1830
1936: 3. Meeting the Tuareg; 4. Colonial conquest and statecraft in the Niger Bend, c.1893
1936; Part III. The Morality of Descent, 1893
1940: 5. Defending hierarchy: Tuareg arguments about authority and descent, c.1893
1940; 6. Defending slavery: the moral order of inequality, c.1893
1940; 7. Defending the river: Songhay arguments about land, c.1893
1940; Part IV. Race and Decolonization, 1940
60: 8. The racial politics of decolonization, 1940
60; Conclusion.