Reversing the Gaze: What if the Other Were You? (Other Voices of Italy)

By: Geneviève Makaping

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781978834705
Related ISBNs:: 9781978834682, 9781978834699
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 01/13/23
Copyrighted By:: Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Psychology, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Simone Brioni
Translator:: Victoria Offredi Poletto
Translator:: Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi