Berberism
Sign in to savethumb|The Berber flag adopted by the [[World Amazigh Congress in 1998]] thumb|Demonstration of Kabyle people|Kabyles in Paris, April 2016 Berberism is a Berber ethnonationalist movement that started in Kabylia in Algeria during the French colonial era with the Kabyle myth, largely driven by colonial capitalism and France's divide and conquer policy. The Berberist movement originally manifested itself as anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and Francophilia, that was sanctioned and sponsored by French colonial authorities. The movement later spread to other Berber communities in the Maghreb region
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- Algeria
- Historical and modern construction of ethnic divides
- 1940 to 1950 Berberist crisis
- Effects of 1962 constitution and Arabization
- Outburst of 1980s: the Berber question, the Berber Spring, the rise of political parties
- Events of 1990s
- Creation of the High Commission for Amazighity (HCA) in 1995
- Constitutional reform of 1996
- 1998 protests
- Morocco
- French Berber policy and historical construction of ethnic divides
- The Amazigh and the Parliament
- The Foundation of NGOs in the 1960s
- The effects of the Berber Spring
- Events of the 1990's
- The "Agadir Charter" of 1991
- The Concessions of 1994
- Achievements of the Berberist movement
- Canary Islands
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|The Berber flag adopted by the [[World Amazigh Congress in 1998]] thumb|Demonstration of Kabyle people|Kabyles in Paris, April 2016 Berberism is a Berber ethnonationalist movement that started in Kabylia in Algeria during the French colonial era with the Kabyle myth, largely driven by colonial capitalism and France's divide and conquer policy. The Berberist movement originally manifested itself as anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and Francophilia, that was sanctioned and sponsored by French colonial authorities. The movement later spread to other Berber communities in the Maghreb region of North Africa and was facilitated by colonial policies such as the Berber Dahir in Morocco. The Berberist movement in Algeria and Morocco is in opposition to cultural Arabization, pan-Arabism, and Islamism. Some Berberist movements, particularly those in the diaspora such as MAK, may pursue separatist agendas aimed at secession from Maghrebi states.
==Algeria== thumb|Road sign in Algeria, showing evidence of dispute over whether names should be written in Arabic, Berber, or French