Savage Constructions: The Myth of African Savagery Medical Anthropology and the trailblazing first Black

and the trailblazing first Black woman to serve as First Lady of the United States

an early example of "writing back to empire

Publisher : Villard (January 9

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Savage Constructions: The Myth of African Savagery Medical Anthropology and the trailblazing first BlackSavage Constructions composes a critical examination of the popular assumption that violence is an essential quality of certain ethnic or racial populations. Wendy Hamblet challenges the supposition, all too common in the West, that darker skinned peoples are inherently violent. To challenge this myth, Savage Constructions offers a theory of subjectivity transformed by historical violence. It rethinks how African peoples, once living in simple