‘The Love of Whiteness in Ghana’ ---Deconstructing Jemima Pierre’s ‘The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race’ (University of Chicago Press 2012)….

Title: Race politics in Ghana
Dated: 18 -2-13




 

Jemima Pierre, professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University, has written an ambitious book in The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race (University of Chicago Press 2012). She engages Ghanaian and African diasporan constructions, perceptions, and performances of Blackness and Whiteness in contemporary