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Title Eurocentrism, racism and knowledge : debates on history and power in Europe and the Americas and the Americas / edited by Marta Araújo, Silvia Maeso.

Publication Info. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Summary 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.
Contents 1. Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction; Silvia Rodrguez Maeso and Marta Arajo -- 2. Epistemic Racism/Sexism, Westernized Universities and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long 16th Century; Ram̤n 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 Galcer̀n 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 P̀ez -- 13. Social Mobilization and the Public History of Slavery in the United States; Stephen Small.
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Subject Eurocentrism -- History.
Eurocentrism.
History.
Racism -- Europe -- History.
Racism.
Europe.
Racism -- America -- History.
America.
Knowledge, Sociology of -- History.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Racism.
Added Author Araújo, Marta, editor.
Maeso, Silvia Rodríguez, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Eurocentrism, racism and knowledge 9781137292889 (OCoLC)890161362
ISBN 9781137292896 (electronic book)
113729289X (electronic book)
9781349450985 (print)