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Scott MacEachern Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, USA, smaceach@bowdoin.edu
For the most part, the boundaries of African Studies remain fixed at the shores of that continent, with periodic excursions into diasporic communities across the seas. The northern limits of this enquiry into `Africa' are, however, more vaguely located, placed somewhere in the Sahara when they are thought of at all. This imprecision in the northern frontiers of `Africa' is closely related to traditional conceptions of race on the continent, and especially of a distinction between `Negroid' and `Caucasoid' peoples and histories. Recent genetic research in and to the south of the Sahara suggests that such distinctions are false, and that human biological variability in these regions does not accord with racialized models. Nevertheless, such models continue to be widely used in popular interpretations of events in these regions — most strikingly, today, in Darfur.
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^^This almost seems like a 2006 rough draft of the above given that it's obviously the same paper, but worded differently in some spots. Good read, nothing new, but he does have a refreshing and realistic view of "Race" on the African continent and how it is disruptive to African studies.
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Some people from Sicilia and Spain jokingly say that Africa stops at the Pyrenees.
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Spiritually, Africa is everywhere an African minded group of individuals reside.
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^^This almost seems like a 2006 rough draft of the above given that it's obviously the same paper, but worded differently in some spots. Good read, nothing new, but he does have a refreshing and realistic view of "Race" on the African continent and how it is disruptive to African studies.
Thanks! It was a good read.
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Actually, a piece of Africa goes all the way into Europe, and can be found in the Swiss Alps. See the Matterhorn.
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