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Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge : Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas / by Marta Araújo, Silvia R. Maeso.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Araújo, Marta, Author.
- Maeso, Silvia Rodríguez, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History.
- Europe.
- World politics.
- Social policy.
- Race.
- Political science.
- Religion--History.
- Religion.
- European History.
- Political History.
- Social Policy.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Political Science.
- History of Religion.
- Local Subjects:
- European History.
- Political History.
- Social Policy.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Political Science.
- History of Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Maps and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction; 2 Epistemic Racism/Sexism, Westernized Universities and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long Sixteenth Century; 3 Violence and Coloniality in Latin America: An Alternative Reading of Subalternization, Racialization and Viscerality; 4 Social Races and Decolonial Struggles in France; 5 Towards a Critique of Eurocentrism: Remarks on Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Racism
- 6 How Post-colonial and Decolonial Theories are Received in Europe and the Idea of Europe7 Africanist Scholarship, Eurocentrism and the Politics of Knowledge; 8 Scientific Colonialism: The Eurocentric Approach to Colonialism; 9 Secrets, Lies, Silences and Invisibilities: Unveiling the Participation of Africans on the Mozambique Front during World War I; 10 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
- 11 Making the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture Compulsory: Tensions and Contradictions for Anti-racist Education in Brazil12 Race and Racism in Mexican History Textbooks: A Silent Presence; 13 Social Mobilization and the Public History of Slavery in the United States; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349450985
- 1349450987
- 9781137292896
- 113729289X
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