The contours of Eurocentrism : race, history, and political texts / Marta Araujo and Silvia Rodriguez Maeso.

By: Araujo, Marta [author.]Contributor(s): Maeso, Silvia Rodriguez [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780739184509 (e-book)Subject(s): History -- Philosophy | Eurocentrism -- Philosophy | Civilization, Western -- Philosophy | Eurocentrism -- Political aspects | Racism -- Political aspects | Historiography -- Political aspects | Knowledge, Theory of -- Political aspects | History -- Study and teaching -- Political aspects | Decolonization -- Africa | National liberation movements -- AfricaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contours of Eurocentrism : race, history, and political texts.DDC classification: 901 LOC classification: D16.9 | .A73 2016Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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".
Scope and content: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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