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Unit 10
Grades 11-12
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The Hamitic Hypothesis: How Colonial Race Science Manufactured a Genocide's Categories

Before European colonization, Hutu and Tutsi identity in the region that became Rwanda functioned primarily as flexible social and economic categories — broadly tied to cattle ownership and social status, with documented historical mobility between them, rather than as fixed,…

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