Presented By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Rhea Rahman (Brooklyn College)
"Muslim Humanitariansin Black,Brown and White: Racializing the White Savior Complex in Africa"
Graduate institute for Design, Ethnography and Social Thought (GIDEST_ program assistant RHEA RAHMAN is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. Her research engages the multiple motivating logics and materializations of religiously inspired international development work. In her ethnographic investigation of a British-based, global Muslim NGO, she examines how institutionalized and secular accountability of professionalized development comes to bear on religious decrees and Islamic ethical stances. Having worked with the NGO in England, Mali, South Africa, and the Netherlands, she explores the complicated striving through which it tries to create a cohesive organizational identity that encompasses the diversity of the places, people, and things with which it engages.
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