Figure 5.18 Identification card of a Rwandan Tutsi. In Rwanda, cards like this one were used to distinguish racialized Tutsis from Hutus. To show a card with “Tutsi” written on it was tantamount to a death sentence during the Rwandan genocide. Whether to instigate a mandatory national identification card is a hot topic in many nations faced with undocumented immigration today. Because these cards can serve to mark some groups as undesirable in a potentially dangerous way, you can understand why there is usually vigorous opposition to a national identification card. (Antony Njuguna/Reuters/Landov.)