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- Title
Intolerably Inferior Identity: How the Social Construction of Race Erased a Rwandan Population.
- Authors
Nardone, Jaclyn
- Abstract
The creation of racial identity in Rwanda, which predated the days of the genocide, may very well have been socially constructed. Aside from considering the dominant roles that the church and media played, this essay seeks to particularly explore how the Belgian inspired identification cards were used as policy instruments, serving as one of the primary tools that aided in the genocide. Racial differences were distinctly classified between the hierarchical Hutus and the inferior Tutsis. The cards said it all; they decided the fate of who would survive the 100 days of violence and who would not.
- Subjects
RWANDA; RACISM; RACE discrimination; RACIAL differences; GENOCIDE; IDENTIFICATION cards; SOCIAL constructionism
- Publication
Peace & Conflict Monitor, 2010, p5
- Publication type
Article