TY  - GEN
T1  - War of visions : conflict of identities in the Sudan
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Deng, Francis Mading, 1938-
LA  - English
PP  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Brookings Institution
YR  - 1995
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm49569125
AB  - The civil war that has raged intermittently in the Sudan since independence in 1956 is a conflict of contrasting and seemingly incompatible identities in the Northern and Southern parts of the country. Identity is seen as a function of how people identify themselves and are identified by others in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, language, and religion. The identity question relates to how such concepts determine or influence participation and distribution in the political, economic, social, and cultural life of the country.
AB  - 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.
AB  - 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.
OP  - 577
CN  - DT157.5 .D45 1995eb
SN  - 0585388180
SN  - 9780585388182
SN  - 0815717946
SN  - 9780815717942
SN  - 0815717938
SN  - 9780815717935
SN  - 9780815723691
SN  - 0815723695
KW  - Sudan : Politics and government : 1985-
KW  - Soudan : Politique et gouvernement : 1985-
KW  - 15.80 history of Africa.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Process : General.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Developing & Emerging Countries.
KW  - Problèmes politiques.
KW  - Identité nationale.
KW  - Nationalisme.
KW  - Evolution politique.
KW  - Soudan.
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Sudan
KW  - Sudan : Bürgerkrieg.
KW  - Politieke conflicten.
KW  - Sudan.
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept) : Sudan.
KW  - POLITICAL CONDITIONS.
KW  - SUDAN.
KW  - Since 1985
ER  -