Reversing the Gaze: What If the Other Were You?

Reversing the Gaze: What If the Other Were You?

Author
Geneviève Makaping (editor)Simone Brioni (editor)Caterina Romeo (editor)Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi (editor)Victoria Offredi Poletto (editor)
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Language
English
Year
2023
Page
226
ISBN
9781978834729
File Type
pdf
File Size
852.7 KiB

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. 

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