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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review“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)
Table of Contents1. Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction; Silvia Rodríguez Maeso and Marta Araújo 2. Epistemic Racism/Sexism, Westernized Universities and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long 16th Century; Ramón 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 Galcerán 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 Páez 13. Social Mobilization and the Public History of Slavery in the United States; Stephen Small
