| Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí - 1997 - 257 pages
The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The ... | |
| Oyeronke Oyewumi - 2016 - 433 pages
This is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing together the essential ... | |
| Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí - 2016 - 262 pages
In this book, Oyěwùmí extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorùbá society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions ... | |
| Oyeronke Olajubu - 2003 - 190 pages
An exploration of gender and power relations in Yoruba religion--both Christianity and Yoruba traditional religion. Drawing on a wide range of oral and written sources, this ... | |
| Elazar Barkan - 1992 - 400 pages
This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars ... | |
| David T. Wellman - 1993 - 292 pages
First published in 1977, Portraits of White Racism advanced a distinctively sociological theory of racism. Based on five case histories, it critically assessed the prevailing ... | |
| Jan E. Leighley - 2001 - 210 pages
America's increasing racial and ethnic diversity is viewed by some as an opportunity to challenge and so reinforce the country's social fabric; by others, as a portent of ... | |
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