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Abstract This research explores the changing discourse surrounding skin lightening currently referred to as “Skin toning” in sub-Saharan Africa. This study problematizes the “skin toning” discourse which deceitfully implies that dark skinned individuals can “slightly lighten” their skin with fewer social and physical consequences. Through critical discourse analysis of an interview with a former Ghanaian beauty queen (Nasara) on YouTube, it became evident that she utilized specific neo-liberal ideologies to discursively frame “skin bleaching.” The concurrent interpretations of skin toning speak to the spaces where gender, race, class and social status intersect to create particular subjectivities and produce particular discourses at specific times.
This part issue presents the first comparative conversation on the politics of whiteness in Africa.1 It draws together a collection of ethnographic studies that reveal the multifarious manifestations of white African subjectivities, power and privilege in their historical and geographical specificity. This initiates a wider discussion that places the heterogeneity of African whiteness in minority contexts alongside the staying power of white power, privilege and supremacy. In this way, this collection provides insight into the ways in which the shift from colonial-era political dominance to postcolonial minority status has affected issues of race on the continent. This moves Africa to the forefront of the study of race, power and the postcolonial moment.
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Africa and its inhabitants have been one of the mysteries of nature that most of the western nations have always desired to demystify. The western nations, therefore, in their eagerness to demystify the African reality, have often reconstructed it in ways that seem strange even to African reality. The main issue then, in the modern African history, is the fact that both Africa and Africans were created and defined by the west. All about Africans were handled by non-African, who were not experts. Because of the invaded and conquered nature of the sole called White race to some part of African continent, that lead to the domination or assertion that blacks are inferior race. And this conquered continent meant the casting of the net of eternal dominion all over its shores and hinterlands. Again the defeat of the White to Black race leads to eternal dynamics of the western racialization of African. The westerners handicapped the rationality of Africans in all aspect of life: Medicine, C...
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