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The scholarships which were the result of fundraising activities organized by students of Dr. Charles Quist-Adade’s Social Justice and Global Inequalities classes were awarded to the students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and University of Ghana on July 9 and July 12 respectively. Continue reading http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/diaspora/artikel.php?ID=213884&comment=0#com

Personal is Political: the dialectic of personal experience and theory formation

By Charles Quist-Adade, PhD

As a preamble to my speech, I would like to say that my life, as is the life of all social animals, is a tapestry of intersections, a logarithm of the personal and the public, and a tributary of history, social structure, and biography. My life is an ongoing negotiation of intersections of socially constructed categories of race, class, and gender. By this, I mean my identity (better still my identities) as a “Black” or African-Canadian or Ghanaian-Canadian male professor is not inherent in me, encoded in my genes or natural to me. I was not born a Black male professor, to paraphrase Simone de Boviour, I was made one by a “conspiracy” of factors, including history, society, and the current of world events and happenings, both fortuitous and planned. These intersections, not surprisingly, have and continue to shape and refine my vision of the world. What theories I formulate or which theories I adopt, what academic or community activities I engage in are all informed by these intersections…Read rest of post:The Personal Is Political