The contours of Eurocentrism : race, history, and political texts /

Marta Araújo and Silvia Rodríguez Maeso.
Bok · Engelsk · 2016

Omfang	xxi, 229 pages : : illustrations ;
Opplysninger	Eurocentrism, race, and the production of history -- Global, regional, and national debates in history teaching -- History, race, and textbooks : performing the evasion of power -- Struggling with narratives : multiperspectivity and African national liberation movements -- Epilogue: "History matters." And yet .... - "This book proposes an approach to Eurocentrism as a paradigm of knowledge production and interpretation rooted in the Western narrative of modernity and its racial governmentalities. It contributes to the critique of the contemporary workings of Eurocentrism and racism that have frustrated the struggles for the decolonization of knowledge and continue to shape our understandings of the world order in racially hierarchical terms, by re-centering the West/Europe"--Provided by publisher.
Emner	Civilization, Western - Philosophy. Decolonization - Africa. Eurocentrism - Philosophy. Eurocentrism - Political aspects. Vis mer... Historiography - Political aspects. History - Philosophy. History - Study and teaching - Political aspects. Knowledge, Theory of - Political aspects. National liberation movements - Africa. Racism - Political aspects.
Dewey	901
ISBN	9780739184493 (cloth : alkaline paper). - 9781498526098 (paperback : alkaline paper)
ISBN(galt)	9780739184509 (electronic)