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October 14, 2026Ethnic and Racial Studies

Knowing ethnicity: the politics of classification and pluralism in Kenya

Christine Chalifoux

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In a postcolonial context where ethnicity has been weaponized by politicians and studied as a tool of divisiveness by scholars, Samantha Balaton-Chrimes’s Knowing Ethnicity: The Politics of Classif...

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6ad1bead6b989d2d588141b0 https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2026.2744924

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