Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge: Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Maps and Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
1 Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction......Page 13
2 Epistemic Racism/Sexism, Westernized Universities and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long Sixteenth Century......Page 35
3 Violence and Coloniality in Latin America: An Alternative Reading of Subalternization, Racialization and Viscerality......Page 59
4 Social Races and Decolonial Struggles in France......Page 77
5 Towards a Critique of Eurocentrism: Remarks on Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Racism......Page 92
6 How Post-colonial and Decolonial Theories are Received in Europe and the Idea of Europe......Page 105
7 Africanist Scholarship, Eurocentrism and the Politics of Knowledge......Page 126
8 Scientific Colonialism: The Eurocentric Approach to Colonialism......Page 148
9 Secrets, Lies, Silences and Invisibilities: Unveiling the Participation of Africans on the Mozambique Front during World War I......Page 166
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......Page 190
11 Making the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture Compulsory: Tensions and Contradictions for Anti-racist Education in Brazil......Page 204
12 Race and Racism in Mexican History Textbooks: A Silent Presence......Page 221
13 Social Mobilization and the Public History of Slavery in the United States......Page 241
Index......Page 259