Reversing the Gaze: What If the Other Were You? Makaping Genevive
Reversing the Gaze: What If the Other Were You? Makaping Genevive What if the Other were you? Being part of an environment is second nature to many of us. What if we were the Other? Others are…
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Reversing the Gaze: What If the Other Were You? Makaping Genevive
What if the Other were you? Being part of an environment is second nature to many of us. What if we were the Other?
Others are perceived as not belonging to by virtue of their language, appearance, skin color, way of dressing, gesticulating, and speaking.In this book, Genevive Makaping denounces the structural racism of contemporary Italy, emphasizing the way in which diverse forms of inequality-race, color, gender, class-intersect and feed off each other. For Others, it is not. Drawing on her own experiences, Genevive 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.
She-a Black Italian woman, whom the white gaze often sees as the Other-has chosen the path of participant observation in order to