| Description |
x, 118 pages ; 23 cm |
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Global issues., 1354-3644 |
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Global issues (Facts on File, Inc.)
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Of Niam-Niams, Troglodytes, and Unicorns. Ch. 1. The "Nightmare Republic" and the "Problem of the Underclass" Ch. 2. The Invention of the Three Human Races. Ch. 3. Sexual Inhibition and the "Ethnographic Record" Ch. 4. "r/K Selection," Lombroso, and the Capitalist "Science" of Racism -- Pt. II. Africa Unchained: Anthropology, Ideology, and Consciousness in Contemporary Praxis. Ch. 5. Functionalism, Positivism, Bourgeois Science, Slavery, and Racism. Ch. 6. Ideology and the Consolidation of Racial Prejudice in "Scientific" Racism. Ch. 7. The Hegemony of Racist Ideology: Color, Status, and the Economic Basis of Racism. Ch. 8. Racist Ideology Inventing History: The "Hamitic Myth" and Rwanda-Burundi. Ch. 9. Hobbesian "Realism" and "Taking Responsibility" Ch. 10. The Africanist "Heart of Darkness" Ch. 11. Male African Pastoralists as Failed Capitalists and as "Owners" of Women -- Pt. III. Theoretical Coda |
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Ch. 12. Marxism and Anthropology I: "Objectivity," Relativism, and the World Economic System. Ch. 13. Marxism and Anthropology II: Fieldwork and Language in History and the Context of Knowledge Production |
| Summary |
This book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current events in Africa, and demonstrates how some of America's most revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly egalitarian discourses. The author seeks to rewrite the image of 'race' in order to show the damage racism can cause serious scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-115) and index |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Race identity.
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Anthropologists -- Attitudes.
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Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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Blacks -- Race identity -- Africa.
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Blacks and mass media.
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Ethnic attitudes.
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Mass media and race relations -- Africa.
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Racism -- Africa.
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Racism.
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Scholars -- Europe -- Attitudes.
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Scholars -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Social aspects -- Africa.
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| LC no. |
97191364 |
| ISBN |
1859731023 (paperback) |
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1859731961 |
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