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Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge

Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas

  • Marta Araújo
  • Silvia Rodríguez Maeso
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction
    Silvia Rodríguez Maeso, Marta Araújo
    Pages 1-22
  3. Epistemic Racism/Sexism, Westernized Universities and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long Sixteenth Century
    Ramón Grosfoguel
    Pages 23-46
  4. Violence and Coloniality in Latin America: An Alternative Reading of Subalternization, Racialization and Viscerality
    Arturo Arias
    Pages 47-64
  5. Social Races and Decolonial Struggles in France
    Sadri Khiari
    Pages 65-79
  6. Towards a Critique of Eurocentrism: Remarks on Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Racism
    S. Sayyid
    Pages 80-92
  7. How Post-colonial and Decolonial Theories are Received in Europe and the Idea of Europe
    Montserrat Galcerán Huguet
    Pages 93-113
  8. Africanist Scholarship, Eurocentrism and the Politics of Knowledge
    Branwen Gruffydd Jones
    Pages 114-135
  9. Scientific Colonialism: The Eurocentric Approach to Colonialism
    Sandew Hira
    Pages 136-153
  10. Secrets, Lies, Silences and Invisibilities: Unveiling the Participation of Africans on the Mozambique Front during World War I
    Maria Paula Meneses, Margarida Gomes
    Pages 154-177
  11. Conceptual Clarity, Please! On the Uses and Abuses of the Concepts of ‘Slave’ and ‘Trade’ in the Study of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery
    Kwame Nimako
    Pages 178-191
  12. Making the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture Compulsory: Tensions and Contradictions for Anti-racist Education in Brazil
    Nilma Lino Gomes
    Pages 192-208
  13. Race and Racism in Mexican History Textbooks: A Silent Presence
    María Dolores Ballesteros Páez
    Pages 209-228
  14. Social Mobilization and the Public History of Slavery in the United States
    Stephen Small
    Pages 229-246
  15. Back Matter
    Pages 247-257
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About this book

Introduction

This collection addresses key issues in the critique of Eurocentrism and racism regarding debates on the production of knowledge, historical narratives and memories in Europe and the Americas. Contributors explore the history of liberation politics as well as academic and political reaction through formulas of accommodation that re-centre the West.

Keywords

colonialism Europe France history participation politics violence World War I

Editors and affiliations

  • Marta Araújo
    • 1
  • Silvia Rodríguez Maeso
    • 1
  1. 1.Centre for Social StudiesUniversity of CoimbraPortugal

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