TY - BOOK AU - Ngwena,C.G. TI - What is Africanness?: Contesting nativism in race, culture and sexualities AV - BJ1201 .N49 PY - 2018/// CY - Pretoria : PB - Pretoria University Law Press ( PULP), KW - Africans KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Africa KW - Race identity KW - Bible KW - Hermeneutics KW - Cultural Theory KW - Sex N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://www.pulp.up.ac.za/monographs/what-is-africanness-contesting-nativism-in-race-culture-and-sexualities ER -