Tired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black
skin, Cameroon-born scholar Geneviève Makaping turns the tables on
Italy's white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze
to which minorities have traditionally been subjected. As she candidly
recounts her experiences--first across Africa and then as a migrant
Black woman in Italy--Makaping describes acts of racist aggression that
are wearying and degrading to encounter on a daily basis. She also
offers her perspective on how various forms of inequality based on race,
color, gender, and class feed off each other. Reversing the Gaze
invites readers to confront the question of racism through the retelling
of everyday occurrences that we might have experienced as victims,
perpetrators, or witnesses.