What is Africanness? Contesting nativism in race, culture and sexualities

What is Africanness: Contesting nativism in culture, race and sexualities, by Charles Ngwena, Professor of Law at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is a peer-reviewed monograph aiming to contribute to the ongoing scholarly conversation in and beyond South Africa ab...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ngwena, C. G., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pretoria : Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Background to the hermeneutics of heterogenous Africanness
  • 1. Introducing the 'manyness' of Africanness
  • 2. Hermeneutics of Africanness: building on Stuart Hall's cultural theory of identifications
  • Part 2: Africanness, race and culture
  • 3. What's in a name? : the naming of Africa and Africans, and the construction of radical cultural alterity
  • 4. Africa as land of racial otherness
  • 5. Decentring the race of Africanness
  • Part 3: Heterogeneous sexualities
  • 6. Representing African sexualitites: contesting nativism from without
  • 7. 'Transgressive' sexualitites: contesting nativism from within and overcoming status subordination
  • 8. Mediating conflicting sexuality identifications through politics and an ethics of pluralism
  • Epilogue : theorising Africanness.