Mobilizing the Masses Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939-1958

Name: Mobilizing the Masses Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939-1958
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ISBN: 9780325070308

ISBN-10: 032507030X

ISBN-13: 9780325070308

Edition: 2004

Authors: Elizabeth Schmidt

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The Rassemblement Democratique Africain (RDA) led Guinea to independence in 1958, advancing a wave of decolonization that ultimately swept across Africa. Schmidt attributes the RDA's overwhelming success to its ability to form a broad ethnic, class, and gender alliance, whose strength lay in its solid support among the non-literate masses. Key to the party's prowess was its focus on groups already engaged in struggle against the state: military veterans, urban workers, peasants, and women. It was their grievances that drove the nationalist agenda and their energies that were harnessed in the struggle for independence. The source of the party's strength was also the root of its greatest…

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List price: $54.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 4/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Elizabeth Schmidt is a contributing editor to the literary magazine Open City and poetry reviewer for the New York Times Book Review.



Introduction History, Culture, and War: The Roots of Guinean Nationalism, 1939-1947


Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite: Military Veterans and the Postwar Nationalist Movement, 1940-1955


The Universal Worker: Organized Labor and Nationalist Mobilization, 1946-1953


Rural Revolt: Popular Resistance to the Colonial Chieftaincy, 1946-1956


Women Take the Lead: Female Emancipation and the Nationalist Movement, 1949-1954


Ethnicity, Class, and Violence: Internal Dissent in the RDA, 1955-1956


Independence Now: The Resurgence of the Left and the Move toward Independence, 1956-1958


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index