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Psychology has had a number of things to say about black and coloured people, none of them favourable, and most of which have reinforced stereotyped and derogatory images. Beyond the Masks is a readable account of black psychology, exploring key theoretical issues in race and gender. In it, Amina Mama examines the history of racist psychology, and of the implicit racism throughout the discipline. Beyond the Masks also offers an important theoretical perspective, and will appeal to all those involved with ethnic minorities, gender politics and questions of identity.
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This was one of the most pioneering works in the field of gender
and social sciences in the African context, and remains an
authoritative text. It is an extensively researched and forcefully
argued study offering a critique and directions for gendering the
social sciences in Africa. The sixteen chapters cover
methodological and epistemological questions and substantive issues
in the various social science disciplines, ranging from economics,
politics, and history, to sociology and anthropology. Thirteen
scholars contribute, including the three distinguished women
editors. The translation, which is edited from the English and
newly introduced by the renowned feminist scholar Fatou Sow, is an
achievement itself, an incursion into the notorious difficulties of
translating what are notably Anglo-Saxon concepts of sex and gender
into the French language and distinctive academic environment; of
interpreting western concepts of feminism within the African
environment; as well as being an opportunity to revisit what
deserves to become a classic text and reach a wider audience.
A Nigerian woman scholar addresses three main areas of literature
in gender and women's studies, a discipline which has become a vast
field of research, teaching and activism in Africa and beyond. She
situates African women's studies in the context ofinternational
feminism, regional political and institutional conditions. The
study addresses recent publications in the general field of state
and politics, from precolonial times to the present; reviews a
range of material grouped under the heading of cultural studies;
and considers the historical and contempoary literature on all
aspects of women's involvement in various sphers of work and the
economy. Finally, the author questions the relationship between
women's studies and the women's movement in Africa.
The varied experience of the Caribbean diaspora in Britain, with
its difficult and fractured history, is reflected in this
distinctive and lively collection. The contributors to "Inside
Babylon" show how employers and police, psychiatrists and welfare
services, help to channel black people into residential and
occupational ghettoes.
Clive Harris, Bob Carter and Shirley Joshi analyse the economic
destiny of Afro-Caribbeans in Britain. Going beyond the familiar
prisms of race relations and reductionist class analysis they
illuminate the radicalizing dynamic of British capitalism in the
postwar period. Errol Francis provides a shocking account of the
experience of black people at the hands of psychiatrists in
Britain. Cecil Gutzmore finds the Notting Hill carnival to be a
litmus test of racist formations in both the media and the state,
as well as evidence of the resilience of the black community. Amina
Mama and Claudette Williams explore the position of women in black
communities while Gail Lewis focuses on their characteristic
patterns of employment. In a powerful concluding essay Winston
James charts the unfolding of a new Afro-Caribbean identity in
Britain and debunks the notion that racist structures by themselves
create a homogeneous black community.
"Inside Babylon" is a radical and timely indictment which moves
beyond over-simplified and misleading stereotypes to identify and
explore the impressive struggles of black people of Britain.
A landmark and long-awaited translation into French of Engendering
African Social Sciences (Codesria 1997), this was one of the most
pioneering works in the field of gender and social sciences in the
African context, and remains an authoritative text. It is an
extensively researched and forcefully argued study offering a
critique and directions for gendering the social sciences in
Africa. The sixteen chapters cover methodological and
epistemological questions and substantive issues in the various
social science disciplines, ranging from economics, politics, and
history, to sociology and anthropology. Thirteen scholars
contribute, including the three distinguished women editors. The
translation, which is edited from the English and newly introduced
by the renowned feminist scholar Fatou Sow, is an achievement
itself, an incursion into the notorious difficulties of translating
what are notably Anglo-Saxon concepts of sex and gender into the
French language and distinctive academic environment; of
interpreting western concepts of feminism within the African
environment; as well as being an opportunity to revisit what
deserves to become a classic text and reach a wider audience. In
French.
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