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  Co-Whites: How and Why White Women "Betrayed" the Struggle for Racial Equality in the United States

  Chukwuemeka Aniagolu

  Co-Whites discusses race and gender politics and traces the role of women in Western and non-Western political systems. Aniagolu examines the dynamics of race and gender in the United States, starting from the colonial and antebellum periods, leading up to the American Civil War and Reconstruction, through the Civil Rights era of the 1960s, to the present day. The work explores how white American women, in their search and struggle for gender equality in the United States, related to three principal streams in America's socioeconomic and political history: white supremacy, women of color-especially African American women, and the freedom and civil rights struggle for racial equality. The United States has irreversibly, become a multiracial and multicultural democracy and white supremacy has become untenab however, Aniagolu concludes that white American women collaborated with white American men as "Co-Whites" or co-partners in the management and maintenance of white supremacy in the United States. Well-researched and lucidly written, the work makes intellectually and historically coherent a subject matter often muttered in small circles and that takes the form of scholarly "civil wars" inside "Women's Studies" between white American and African American women scholars and schools of thought. The work grapples with a serious issue in light of the 2008 presidential elections in the United States, offering insightful explanations certain to evoke lively debate in university classrooms, amongst professorial colleagues, and in the general public.

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  Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems

  Randolph K. Quaye

  Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and the role of the state in healthcare planning. In response to the World Bank recommendation that the principle of cost recovery be included in healthcare financing strategies, African countries embraced the principle of public-private partnerships in healthcare. It was argued then, and still now, that a way out of their health conundrum is for governments to play a smaller role in healthcare. The present book explores the different financing arrangements in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. It introduces new scholarship on post-colonial healthcare strategies in Africa, especially during a decade of market-oriented healthcare reform. Drawing upon current research and case studies, as well as recent work by the author himself on African healthcare systems, this book sets out to analyze the implications of the various strategies for the future of healthcare financing in Africa.

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  Recent Reforms in the Swedish Health Care System: Implications for the Swedish Welfare State

  Randolph K. Quaye

  Good health and equal access to health and medical care are the fundamental aspects of the Swedish welfare state. In recent years, however, economic incentives have become more and more important in health care, even in welfare states such as Sweden. In a decade and a half, Sweden has experimented with different health care modalities. As far as we know, relatively little research has been done to assess how these financial incentives, over time, have affected Sweden and the views of physicians. This work analyzes the implications of these reforms on the future structure of the well-envied health care of the Swedes.

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  Ozo: A Story of an African Knighthood

  Chukwuemeka Aniagolu

  Ozo: A Story of an African Knighthood, is a historical fiction about a traditional Igbo warrior aristocrats of titled holders. It blends social anthropology with narrative fiction.

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  African Americans' Health Care Practices, Perspectives, and Needs

  Randolph K. Quaye

  Healthcare of the highest quality is what one should expect to receive in the United States. Inequalities in the distribution and utilization of American health services will result in disastrous consequences for the nation as a whole. African Americans' Health Care Practices, Perspectives, and Needs examines the impact of healthcare discrimination upon the African-American community. Healthcare specialists and providers, as well as ethnic studies scholars will benefit from this telling book.

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  African Glimpses: Three Short Stories

  Chukwuemeka Aniagolu

  African Glimpses: Three Short Stories is Emeka Aniagolu's second literary work. His first novel, Black Mustard Seed (2002), was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. African Glimpses: Three Short Stories is a compilation of three short stories that are based on Nigeria and the New World over a period of 100 years.