What is Africanness? : Contesting nativism in race, culture and sexualities - Ngwena, C. G. (Pretoria : Pretoria University Law Press ( PULP), 2018)
PART 1: Background to the hermeneutics of heterogenous Africanness. 1. Introducing the {u2018}manyness{u2019} of Africanness -- 2. Hermeneutics of Africanness: building on Stuart Hall{u2019}s cultural theory of identifications. PART 2: Africanness, race and culture. 3. What{u2019}s in a name? The naming of Africa and Africans, and the construction of radical cultural alterity -- 4. Africa as land of racial otherness -- 5. Decentring the race of Africanness. PART 3: Heterogeneous sexualities. 6. Representing African sexualities: contesting nativism from without -- 7. {u2018}Transgressive{u2019} sexualities: contesting nativism from within and overcoming status subordination -- 8. Mediating conflicting sexuality identifications through politics and an ethics of pluralism. EPILOGUE: Theorising Africanness.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Africans -- Ethnic identity; Group identity -- Africa; Africans -- Race identity; Bible -- Hermeneutics; Cultural Theory; Sex -- Africa