Race, Ethnicity, and Violence in South Sudan

Amir Idris is a Professor of African History and Politics in the Department of History at Fordham University in New York City. He is the author of Conflict and Politics of Identity in Sudan. Among his other books are South Sudan: Post-Independence Dilemmas, Identity, Citizenship, and Violence in Two Sudans, and Sudan’s Civil War: Slavery, Race, and Formational Identities.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Invention of South Sudan.- Chapter 3. The Formation of a Racialized State.-Chapter 4. Racialized Nationalism and Nation-Building.- Chapter 5. Ethnic Violence as Politics—December 2013 Massacre.- Chapter 6. De-inventing South Sudan.