Full Description
Afroeuropeans: Identities, Racism, and Resistances reflects on the tensions, ambiguities, and paradoxes of Blackness in Europe.
The book addresses relations of domination and modes of racial exclusion, but also Afro-European interventions in the political, social, cultural, and artistic spheres, and the multiple resistances that have sustained Black bodies in the European continent. At the same time as Black histories, cultures, and social conditions are made invisible in hegemonic accounts in Europe, there is a hypervisibility and presence of Black stereotyping in European popular culture. Black identities have become even more conditioned by new mainstream far-right discourses and the tightening immigrant and refugee policies that affect people of African descent. One of the book's most innovative contributions is the attention it gives to Black South European thought, experiences, and resistance—particularly in the Portuguese context. This constitutes not only a critique Europe's pervasive racism and "color blindness" policies but also makes a significant contribution to a broader understanding of Blackness and racism, extending beyond the U.S. and Northern European contexts.
This book is forged in a moment of particularly strong Black intellectual and political vitality. Given the book's intersectional and transdisciplinary approach, it will be an important go-to for students and researchers across the humanities and social sciences, as well as to artists, activists, politicians, and journalists.
Contents
Introduction 1. Contesting the invisibilities of imperialism and institutional racism across Black Europe 2. Black Women in Lisbon at the Dawn of the 20th Century: A Speculative Portrait Cristina Roldão 3. Decolonial Iconoclasm 4. Sometimes Heroes, Sometimes Maligned: Media, Politics and Barcelona Manteros in a Covid-19 Context 5. Deepening into the guts of European Modernity. Romanipen and Blackness as political antidote against white domination 6. Black Culture Matters: Struggle and Liberation as Acts of Culture 7. Reflections on the Role of Whiteness in the Production of Black Europe 8. Black Lisbon: dialogues between the Afro-descendant artistic scene and the anti-racist struggle 9. Pluricentric Portuguese in Higher Education: dominance, non- dominance and legacies of racism 10. Scenographies of Colonial and Post-Colonial Memory in Portuguese Literature (Fragments of Memory in African-Descent literary authorship) 11. The colour of technology: how structural racism is building the digital society 12. Table for Upside Down Practices 13. Many races - one nation: racial non-discrimination always the cornerstone of Portugal's overseas policy
