Full Description
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 experiences-first across Africa and then as a migrant Black woman in Italy-Makaping describes acts of racist aggression that are wearying and degrading to encounter on a daily basis. She also offers her perspective on how various forms of inequality based on race, color, gender, and class feed off each other. Reversing the Gaze invites readers to confront the question of racism through the retelling of everyday occurrences that we might have experienced as victims, perpetrators, or witnesses.
Contents
Foreword: Producing Transnational Black Studies with an Intersectional Approach
Caterina Romeo
Translators' Note
Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto
Editor's Note
Simone Brioni
Reversing the Gaze
Introduction: My Nonaligned Feminism
GeneviÈve Makaping
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
About the Author, Editor, and Translators
