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1 online resource (xi, 257 pages) : illustrations |
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1. Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction -- Silvia Rodriguez Maeso and Marta Araujo 2. Epistemic Racism/Sexism, Westernized Universities and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long 16th Century -- Ramon Grosfoguel 3. Violence and Coloniality in Latin America: An Alternative Reading of Subalternization, Racialization, and Viscerality -- Arturo Arias 4. Social Races and Decolonial Struggles in France -- Sadri Khiari 5. Towards a Critique of Eurocentrism: Remarks on Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Racism -- S. Sayyid 6. How Post-colonial and Decolonial Theories Are Received in Europe and the Idea of Europe -- Montserrat Galceran Huguet 7. Africanist Scholarship, Eurocentrism and the Politics of Knowledge -- Branwen Gruffydd Jones 8. Scientific Colonialism: the Eurocentric Approach to Colonialism -- Sandew Hira 9. Secrets, Lies, Silences and Invisibilities: Unveiling the Participation of Africans in the Mozambique Front during World War I -- Maria Paula Meneses and Margarida Gomes 10. Conceptual Clarity, Please! On the Uses and Abuses of the Concepts of 'Slave' and 'Trade' in the Study of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery -- Kwame Nimako 11. Making Compulsory the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture: Tensions and Contradictions for Anti-racist Education in Brazil -- Nilma Lino Gomes 12. Race and Racism in Mexican History Textbooks: A Silent Presence -- Dolores Ballesteros Paez 13. Social Mobilization and the Public History of Slavery in the United States -- Stephen Small |
| Summary |
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. This collection is an interdisciplinary effort drawing on the work of international scholars and political activists. It addresses key questions in the critique of Eurocentrism and racism regarding debates on the production and sedimentation of knowledge, historical narratives and memories in Europe and the Americas. By conceiving Eurocentrism as a paradigm of interpretation, and race as the key principle of the modern order, the authors bring the relation between knowledge and power to the centre of debate. The book invites to consider institutionalized violence as pervading the regulation of the heterogeneity of (post- )colonial territories and peoples, and to see the politics of knowledge production as a struggle for power seeking profound change. At the heart of this collective endeavour is the long history of international and domestic liberation politics and thought, as well as academic and political reaction through formulas of accommodation that re-centre the West |
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Electronic book text |
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Epublication based on: 9781137292889 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Marta Araujo is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. She has published internationally on public policy, institutionalized racism, Eurocentrism and education. Silvia R. Maeso is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Her work has focused on Eurocentrism, race and history, and racism and public policy |
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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Palgrave, viewed December 11, 2015) |
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Eurocentrism -- History
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Racism -- Europe -- History
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Racism -- America -- History
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Knowledge, Sociology of -- History
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Political structure & processes -- Europe -- The Americas.
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Ethnic studies -- Europe -- The Americas.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Political Science -- History & Theory.
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Political Science -- Public Policy -- Social Policy.
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Social Science -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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Political Science -- General.
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Religion -- History.
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History -- Europe -- General.
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Eurocentrism.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Racism.
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Political structure & processes -- Europe -- The Americas.
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Ethnic studies -- Europe -- The Americas.
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Politics and Government.
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America.
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Europe.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Araújo, Marta, editor.
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Maeso, Silvia Rodríguez, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137292896 |
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113729289X |
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9781349450985 |
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1349450987 |
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