White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation - Paperback
White Saviorism and Popular Culture: Imagined Africa as a Space for American Salvation - Paperback
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by Kathryn Mathers (Author)
This book interrogates the white savior industrial complex by exploring how America continues to present an imagined Africa as a space for salvation in the 21st century.
Author Biography
Kathryn Mathers is an Associate Professor of the Practice in International Comparative Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her book, Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa (2010) uses ethnographic observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask why is Africa so important to Americans? She is co-producer of the documentary film When I Say Africa that challenges the image of Africa as a continent in need of saving.
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