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Oromo nationalism, 55–88, 105–6, 112–19, 144–7;
religious worldview, Oromo, 61–5
and African American compared, 3, 21, 22,
107, 119, 120–1, 123–9, 131–2, 145–6;
Republic of New Africa, 51
development of, 70–4; and Ethiopian
Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), 51
revolutionary class, 14
colonialism, 55–9, 113, 116, 123–6, 134, 141;
revolutionary multicultural democracy, 1, 3, 4, 22,
and gada system, 59, 60, 62–4, 65–7, 69, 131;
and kinship, 59–61; and Macha-Tulama
141, 147, 148–9; revolutionary nationalism,
Association, 74–7, 114–15, 142, 143; and
17, 19, 38, 44, 116, 128, 144–5; and Black
militancy, 48, 49–51; and multicultural
Meles regime, 91–2, 130; mobilization for,
146–7; and Oromo Liberation Front, 77–81,
democracy, 1, 147; suppression of, 52, 139. see
116; and state terrorism, 116–19; and
also armed struggle
women’s rights, 67–8; and worldview, 61–5
Rice, Susan, 91, 97, 103
Richmond,Anthony H., 148
Oromo peoplehood, 59–61, 77, 120, 123
Robinson, Jo Ann, 45
Oromo People’s Democratic Organization
Robinson,William I., 56
(OPDO), 82, 84, 88, 92, 93, 144
Roebuck, J. B., 35
Oromo People’s Liberation Front (OPLF), 84
Oromo Relief Association (ORA), 91, 118, 131
Roosevelt,Theodore, 103
Oromos,The:Voice Against Tyranny (pamphlet), 77,
Ross, Luana, 93, 94
115
Rudwick, Elliot, 26, 40, 42, 43, 46, 52
Oromo Studies Association, 129
rule of law, 141. see also law (seera)
ruling classes. see Anglo-American ruling class;
Oromumma. see Oromo nationalism
aristocracy; Habasha elites
Orthodox Christianity, 66, 71, 99, 113, 120
Russia, 152. see also Soviet Union
Pan-Africanism, 30, 40, 49, 109, 151
Parks, Rosa, 45, 46 religious power of women, 68 Index • 215
Sado, Haji Adam, 76
Paul,Thomas, 108 Said, Edward, 15–16, 150
peoplehood. see African Americans; Oromo Sales,William W., Jr., 48, 49
peoplehood Sapalo, Bakri, 73, 75, 113
Perham, Margery, 73 Sbacchi,Alberto, 98
Philips, John Edward, 28 school segregation, 43–4, 135. see also education;
Pinkney,Alphonso, 52 segregation, racial
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 35 Schwartz, Benjamin, 14
political power, 19, 47 Schwartzman, D., 137
political slavery, 145, 146 Scott,William R., 98
Poor People’s Campaign, 47, 48 Sealy, Michael, 92
popular sovereignity, 6–7, 9, 10. see also democracy segregation, racial, 35–6, 42–3, 94, 123; end of,
poverty, 47–8, 53, 138, 139, 141; Black American, 133, 136; school, 43–4, 135. see also American
9, 46 apartheid; Jim Crow laws
qallu (religous leader), 65–6 self-determination, 3, 10, 50, 141; and Civil Rights
Qilixxu, Elemo, 77, 78 movement, 44, 139; cultural, 38, 100, 133;
Qixxeesa,Alemu, 75 and democracy, 7, 9, 86, 93, 104, 142; and
Quakers, 110 oppressed nationalism, 11, 20; Oromo, 57, 81,
Quarles, Benjamin, 2 83–4, 85–6, 88, 116. see also nationalism;
qubee (Latin alphabet), 72–3, 83, 130, 143 popular sovereignity
racial caste system, 2, 32, 34, 38, 94, 123, 126; and semi-slavery, 2, 56, 57, 119, 125–6
assimiliation, 10, 24; dismantling of, 9, 52 Semitic people, 96, 97
racial/ethnonational stratification, 7, 17, 19, 120, Semmes, Clovis E., 26, 29–31
132, 152. see also White supremacy Shack,W.A., 129
racial slavery. see slavery, racial Shankallas, 96, 98
racism, 24, 49, 88, 94–5, 130;African American sharecropping, 3, 37, 126
challenge to, 49–50, 136; and cultural Skocpol,Theda, 5, 21
identity, 14, 40, 72; global, 4, 53; ideological slavery, racial, 7, 8, 29, 97–8, 113; abolition of, 71,
discourse of, 89; and slavery, 6, 8; and social 110, 111, 119, 134–5;African American
sciences, 11–12, 137. see also American resistance to, 27, 108, 124, 140; and African
apartheid; Ethiopian racism nationalism, 31, 32–3; and capitalism, 5, 6, 24,
Ragassa, Hailu, 79, 116 26, 93; political, 145, 146; nafxanya-gabbar
Reconstruction (1865–1867), 35, 134 system, 2, 56, 57, 119, 125–6
refugees, Oromo, 80, 87, 105, 118–19 Smith,Anthony, 9, 19, 24, 38, 41, 114, 123
religion, 18, 30. see also Christianity; Islam Snyder, Louis L., 6
religious institutions, 33, 35, 37, 64–6 social development, 62–3
religious movements, 48 social movements, 7