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Reversing the gaze : what if the other were you? / Geneviève Makaping ; edited by Simone Brioni ; translated by Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto ; foreword by Caterina Romeo.

What if the Other were you? What if we were the Other? Being part of an environment is second nature to many of us. For others, it is not. Others are perceived as not belonging to by virtue of their language, appearance, skin color, way of dressing, gesticulating, and speaking. In this book, Geneviè...

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Main Author: Makaping, Geneviève (Author)
Other Authors: Brioni, Simone (Editor), Bellesia, Giovanna (Translator), Poletto, Victoria Offredi (Translator), Romeo, Caterina (writer of foreword.)
Other title:Traiettorie di sguardi. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Italian
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]
©2023.
Series:Other voices of Italy.
Subjects:
Makaping, Geneviève.
Cameroonians > Italy > Biography.
Bamileke (African people) > Italy > Biography.
Women immigrants > Italy > Biography.
Women, Black > Italy > Biography.
Black people > Italy > Social conditions.
Marginality, Social > Italy.
Italy > Race relations > History > 21st century.
Bamileke (African people)
Black people > Social conditions.
Cameroonians.
Marginality, Social.
Race relations.
Women, Black.
Women immigrants.
Italy.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The anthropological journey of a Bamileke immigrant woman
  • End of the anthropological journey of a Bamileke immigrant woman
  • My not-very personal diary
  • To belong, but to which tribe?
  • Call me Negra
  • The difficulty of dialoguing within the margin
  • The anthropology of the other
  • Harassment and more
  • Daily experiences
  • The many shades of Black
  • Participant observation of an eccentric subject.

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