Reversing the Gaze

What If the Other Were You?
Drawing on her own experiences, Genevieve Makaping spins the customary gaze of anthropology around, and the gaze that in colonial ethnography was directed at the so-called uncivilized indigenous and Black peoples, now focuses on the white majority as seen from her point of view.
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.

Contributor: Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi (Translated by), Simone Brioni (Edited by), Victoria Offredi Poletto (Translated by), Caterina Romeo (Contributions by)

Translator: Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi, Victoria Offredi Poletto

Pages: 226

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