Title: African images :
Authors: Rigby, Peter,
Date: 1996
Publisher: Berg,
Physical description: x, 118 pages ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: This 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.
Contents: pt. I. Of Niam-Niams, Troglodytes, and Unicorns. Ch. 1. The "Nightmare Republic" and the "Problem of the Underclass" Ch. 2. The Invention of the Three Human Races. Ch. 3. Sexual Inhibition and the "Ethnographic Record" Ch. 4. "r/K Selection," Lombroso, and the Capitalist "Science" of Racism -- pt. II. Africa Unchained: Anthropology, Ideology, and Consciousness in Contemporary Praxis. Ch. 5. Functionalism, Positivism, Bourgeois Science, Slavery, and Racism. Ch. 6. Ideology and the Consolidation of Racial Prejudice in "Scientific" Racism. Ch. 7. The Hegemony of Racist Ideology: Color, Status, and the Economic Basis of Racism. Ch. 8. Racist Ideology Inventing History: The "Hamitic Myth" and Rwanda-Burundi. Ch. 9. Hobbesian "Realism" and "Taking Responsibility" Ch. 10. The Africanist "Heart of Darkness" Ch. 11. Male African Pastoralists as Failed Capitalists and as "Owners" of Women -- pt. III. Theoretical Coda.
Subject headings (LCSH): African Americans--Race identity.; Anthropology--Philosophy.; Black people--Race identity--Africa.; Racism--Africa.; Racism.; Scholars--Europe--Attitudes.; Scholars--United States--Attitudes.