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Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge

Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas

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Editors:
  1. Marta Araújo

    1. Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

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  2. Silvia Rodríguez Maeso

    1. Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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

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.

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“Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge is a timely contribution to this debate. It brings together international scholars and political activists to reflect on Eurocentrism – its premise and contestations – in Europe and the Americas. … the volume will certainly attract interest within and beyond academia precisely because there is an attempt in the volume at a simultaneous critique of Eurocentrism and certain postcolonial approaches.” (Sandrine Bertaux, Ethnic and Racial Studies, May, 2016)

“The contributors to this edited volume are internationally renowned scholars who have published widely on sociology, race, education and epistemology and have made valuable contributions to the production of knowledge in areas related to the theme of the book. … This book makes an important contribution to knowledge, by adding valuable inputs on the still relatively small literature in the field of the Epistemeologies of the South … by bringing innovative and ‘alternative’ analysis.” (Boaventura Monjane, Sociology, Vol. 51 (1), February, 2016) 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

    Marta Araújo, Silvia Rodríguez Maeso

About the editors

Arturo Arias, University of Texas, USA Branwen Gruffydd Jones, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Kwame Nimako, University of California, USA Margarida Gomes, University of Coimbra, Portugal María Dolores Ballesteros Páez, Monterrey Technological and High Studies Institute, Mexico Maria Paula Meneses, University of Coimbra, Portugal Montserrat Galcerán, University of Madrid, Spain Nilma Lino Gomes, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Ramón Grosfoguel, University of California, Berkeley, USA S. Sayyid, University of Leeds, UK Sadri Khiari, Party of the Indigenous of the Republic, France Sandew Hira, International Institute for Scientific Research, The Netherlands Stephen Small, University of California, USA

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