Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze

ISBN-13: 9781108473606 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 278 str.

Clive Gabay

Opis

While challenging traditional postcolonial accounts, Gabay places racial anxiety at the heart of imaginaries of Africa and international order.

Recenzje

'From black and savage Dark Continent to dynamic rising consumerist titan of the future, Africa has long occupied a special place in the Western imaginary. What Clive Gabay's boldly revisionist and impressively original text demonstrates is that the psychic interplay between maps and mapmakers has always been more complex and subtle than assumed - a dialectic reflecting the ongoing evolution of Whiteness itself from exclusionary phenotypical and eugenicist racial supremacy to putatively colourless institutional placeholder that even blacks (the right kind, of course) can now occupy.' Charles Mills, City University of New York

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Whiteness, the Western gaze and Africa; 2. Finding anti-civilisation in Africa; 3. Native rights in colonial Kenya: the symbolism of Harry Thuku; 4. 'Exploding Africa': Of post-war modernisers and travellers; 5. The Age of Capricorn: bridging the past to the present; 6. Afropolitanism, and the White-Western incorporation of Africa; 7. Africa rising, whiteness falling; 8. Making whiteness strange; References; Index.