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- Title: We Come as Members of the Superior Race
- Author : Obed Mfum-Mensah
- Release Date : January 06, 2020
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Professional & Technical,Education,Society,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1039 KB
Description
Westerners have long represented Africans as “backwards,” “primitive,” and “unintelligent,” distortions which have opened the door for American philanthropies to push their own education agendas in Africa. We Come as Members of the Superior Race discusses the origin and history of these dangerous stereotypes and western “infantilization” of African societies, exploring how their legacy continues to inform contemporary educational and development discourses. By viewing African societies as subordinated in a global geopolitical order, these problematic stereotypes continue to influence education policy and research in Sub-Sahara Africa today.