gender, culture, race, and identity
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Korieh, Chima J. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Okeke, Philomena E. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Swai, Elinami
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 10 2009
- Thesaurus
- globalisering, migratie, diaspora, gender, cultuur, etniciteit, identiteit, mensenrechten, Afrikaans, wereld
- Description
- The authors of this book probe the effects of global and local forces in reshaping notions of gender, race, class, identity, human rights, and community across Africa and its Diaspora. The essays in this collection employ diverse interdisciplinary approaches--drawing from subjects such as history, sociology, religion, anthropology, gender studies, feminist studies--in an effort to centralize gender as a category of analysis in developing critical perspectives in a globalizing world. From this approach the authors, scholars from Africa, Europe and the United States, hope to illuminate the effects of issues such as international migration, globalization, and cultural continuities among diaspora communities on the articulation of women’s agency, community organization, and identity formation at the local and the global level.