An unquestionably important, oral-history collection presents the first-person stories of survivors of the genocide in Darfur, a region in western Sudan where the Sudanese government is accused of abetting the murder of an estimated 400,000 persons. • 24 illustrations
Friedrichs, David O., ed. State Crime. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate/ Dartmouth, 1998. Gourevitch, Philip. ... Shattuck, John. Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars and America's Response. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
In writing this book, Totten reports that he “crafted this book along the lines of what he wished had been available to him when he first began teaching about genocide back in the mid-1980s.
Editors Samuel Totten is a genocide scholar based at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. ... Indigenous Peoples (with Robert Hitchcock) (2011); Impediments to the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide (2012); and The Plight and ...
Sudan Tribune (2010b) “Khartoum's army bomb South Sudan, targeting Darfur rebels. ... Totten, S. (2011a) An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide, volume 1. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International.
The contributors to this volume consider some of the major stumbling blocks to the avoidance of genocide. Bartrop and Totten argue that realpolitik is the major impediment to the elimination of genocide.
From the small but high-quality body of work I did find, I identified three major themes: (1) using literature to introduce and/or illustrate concepts and skills that are essential to exploring social issues as part of the study of ...
A Critical Analysis”, 89 Impediments to the Prevention and Intervention of Genocide, 89 “genocide” (term of) counterproductive to prevention and intervention, 251–253 elites' perceptions of their own actions, 83–84 understanding such, ...
Covering hundreds of years, this book explores the religious, ethnic, and cultural roots of Sudanese identity-making and how it influenced the shape of the genocide that erupted in 2004.
The Sixth Edition includes incorporation of increased emphasis on global perspectives, updated contemporary social movements, such as #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo, and an updated focus on gendered violence.
Further Reading: Peabody, Sue, and Keila Grinberg, eds. Slavery, Freedom and the Law in the Atlantic World: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. Sue Peabody ...