This essay argues that the usages of the divide between Berbers and Arabs by the Algerian government and Berber activists alike should be analyzed in light of the transformation of the Imazighen into a cultural minority by the nation-state. The nation-state's definition of the majority as Arab, as well as the very concept of a minority, has shaped both the status and the grammar of the Arab-Berber divide in ways that are irreducible to how this binary functioned under French colonialism. In order to understand the distinct modes by which these categories function in Algeria today, one needs to analyze how the language of the nation-state determines their grammar, namely how they are deployed within this political context. Hence, by focusing primarily on French colonial representations of race such as the Kabyle Myth and by asserting simplified colonial continuities, the literature fails to make sense of the political centrality of the nation-state in the construction of the Amazigh question.

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对北非种族和民族对阿拉伯-柏柏尔鸿沟的概念批判的反思

本文认为，阿尔及利亚政府和柏柏尔活动家对柏柏尔人和阿拉伯人之间鸿沟的使用应该根据伊马齐根被民族国家变成文化少数。民族国家将多数人定义为阿拉伯人，以及少数人的概念本身，以无法还原这种二元在法国殖民主义下的运作方式的方式塑造了阿拉伯-柏柏尔人分歧的地位和语法。为了理解这些类别今天在阿尔及利亚发挥作用的不同模式，需要分析民族国家的语言如何决定它们的语法，即它们如何在这种政治背景下展开。因此，通过主要关注法国对种族的殖民代表，例如卡比尔神话，并通过断言简化的殖民连续性，文献无法理解民族国家在构建阿马齐格问题中的政治中心地位。