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  • African Images: Racism and the End of Anthropology

    African Images by Rigby, Peter;

    Racism and the End of Anthropology

    Series: Global Issues;

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    Short description:

    This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars.

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    Long description:

    This controversial book is an impassioned African response to the racial stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. It highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, particularly in reporting current events in Africa, and demonstrates how some of America's most revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly egalitarian discourses. The author seeks to rewrite the image of 'race' in order to show the damage racism can cause serious scholarship.

    "African Images is a benchmark publication on the subject of the role and relationship of racism and academia. - The Bookwatch

    Rigby's compact analysis of Western intellectualism and its construction of race and racism serves as a shining example of the ethnographic 'Other' turning the pen on the imperialist in a well-researched and insightfully reasoned critique of Western thought. - JASO

    This short book summarises the analytical stance which [Rigby] had been developing over the last twenty years. . . The passion, dedicated persistence, insights, wild swipes, jeremiads and scourgings of the money-changes that one had grown to expect from Peter Rigby are all there. - Social Anthropology"

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface, Introduction, PART I: Of Niam-Niams, Troglodytes, and Unicorns, CHAPTER ONE - The Nightmare Republic and the Problem of the Underclass, CHAPTER TWO - The Invention of the Three Human Races, CHAPTER THREE - Sexual Inhibition and the Ethnographic Record, CHAPTER FOUR - r/K Selection, Lombroso, and the Capitalist Science of Racism, PART II: Africa Unchained: Anthropology, Ideology, and Consciousness in Contemporary Praxis, CHAPTER FIVE - Funtionalism, Positivism, Bourgeois Science, Slavery, and Racism, CHAPTER SIX - Ideology and the Consolidation of Racial Prejudice in Scientific Racism, CHAPTER SEVEN - The Hegemony of Racist Ideology: Color, Status, and the Economic Basis of Racism, CHAPTER EIGHT - Racist Ideology Inventing History: The Hamitic Myth and Rwanda-Burundi, CHAPTER NINE - Hobbesian Realism and Taking Responsibility, CHAPTER TEN - The Africanist Heart of Darkness, CHAPTER ELEVEN - Male African Pastoralists as Failed Capitalists and as Owners of Women, PART III: Theoretical Coda, CHAPTER TWELVE - Marxism and Anthropology I: Objectivity, Relativism, and the World Economic System, CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Marxism and Anthropology II: Fieldwork and Language in History and the Context of Knowledge Production, Appendix, Bibliography, Index

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