Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani

Prospect Top 50 Thinker of 2021British Academy Book Prize FinalistPROSE Award Finalist "Provocative, elegantly written."--Fara Dabhoiwala, New York Review of Books   "Demonstrates how a broad rethinking of political issues becomes possible when Western ideals and practices are examined from the vantage point of Asia and Africa."--Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books   In case after case around the globe--from Israel to Sudan--the colonial state and the nation-state have been constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in America, where genocide and internment on reservations created a permanent native minority. In Europe, this template would be used both by the Nazis and the Allies.   Neither Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this process. Mahmood Mamdani points to inherent limitations in the legal solution attempted at Nuremberg. Political violence demands political sol