Race and Africa - Cultural and Historical Legacies

Beginning with the premise that race is a global phenomenon configured in the political context of European empire, this book presents studies of historical and contemporary race making on--and about--the African continent. It argues that Africa remains a key cite for understanding the development and consolidation of race thinking and the contemporary articulations of racial meanings throughout the world. Its analysis centers race in the continent-s history of alterity while at the same time responding to the ironic and paradoxical exclusion of the continent from the contemporary discussions of racial formation.