Reversing the Gaze : : What If the Other Were You? / / Geneviève Makaping; ed. by Simone Brioni.

Tired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar Geneviève Makaping turns the tables on Italy’s white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities have traditionally been subjected. As she candidly recounts her experienc...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Other Voices of Italy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (226 p.) :; none
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword: Producing Transnational Black Studies with an Intersectional Approach
  • Translators’ Note
  • Editor’s Note
  • Introduction: My Nonaligned Feminism
  • 1 The Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Immigrant Woman
  • 2 End of the Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Woman
  • 3 My Not Very Personal Diary
  • 4 To Belong, But to Which Tribe?
  • 5 Call Me Negra
  • 6 The Difficulty of Dialoguing within the Margin
  • 7 The Anthropology of the Other
  • 8 Harassment and More
  • 9 Daily Experiences
  • 10 The Many Shades of Black
  • 11 Participant Observation of an Eccentric Subject
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Notes on Contributors