Eurocentrism, racism and knowledge : debates on history and power in Europe and the Americas and the Americas

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. Eurocentrism, Political Struggles And The Entrenched Will-to-ignorance : An Introduction / Silvai Rodríguez Maeso And Marta Araújo -- Epistemic Racism/sexism, Westernized Universities And The Four Genocides/epistemicides Of The Long Sixteenth Century / Ramón Grosfoguel -- Violence And Coloniality In Latin America : An Alternative Reading Of Subalternization, Racialization And Viscerality / Arturo Arias -- Social Races And Decolonial Struggles In France / Sadri Khiari -- Towards A Critique Of Eurocentrism : Remarks On Wittgenstein, Philosophy And Racism / S. Sayyid -- How Post-colonial And Decolonial Theories Are Received In Europe And The Idea Of Europe / Montserrat Galcerán Huguet -- Africanist Scholarship, Eurocentrism And The Politics Of Knowledge / Branwen Gruffydd Jones -- Scientific Colonialism : The Eurocentric Approach To Colonialism / Sandew Hira -- Secrets, Lies, Silences And Invisibilities : Unveiling The Participation Of Africans On The Mozambique Front During World War I / Maria Paula Meneses And Margarida Gomes -- 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 / Kwame Nimako -- Making The Teaching Of Afro-brazilian And African History And Culture Compulsory : Tensions And Contradictions For Anti-racist Education In Brazil / Nilma Lino Gomes -- Race And Racism In Mexican History Textbooks : A Silent Presence / María Dolores Ballesteros Páez -- Social Mobilization And The Public History Of Slavery In The United States / Stephen Small. Edited By Marta Araújo And Silvia Rodríguez Maeso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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 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