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Books
African History: a Very Short Introduction by John Parker and Richard Rathbone (Oxford, 2007)
The Myth of the Lazy Native by S.H. Alatas (London, 1977)
The Image of the Black in Western Art by L. Bugner (Volume 2, New York, 1979)
Presence and Prestige: Africans in Europe by H.W. Debrunner (Basel, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1979)
Race, Writing, and Difference by H.L. Gates Jr (University of Chicago Press, 1986)
The Image of the Black in Western Art by Hugh Honour (Volume 4, Cambridge, MA and London, 1989)
Black Looks: Race and Representation by Bell Hooks (Boston, South End Press, 1992)
White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan (Williamsburg, VA, 1968)
White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture by Jan Nederveen Pieterse (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1992)
About the author
Jan Nederveen Pieterse is professor of sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He specialises in globalisation, development studies and intercultural studies. Recent books are Ethnicities and Global Multiculture: Pants for an Octopus (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), Globalization or Empire? (Routledge, 2004), Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) and Development Theory: Deconstructions/ Reconstructions (Sage, 2001).
