1st Edition

Afroeuropeans Identities, Racism, and Resistances

268 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

Cristina Roldão, Raquel Lima, Pedro Varela, Otávio Raposo and Ana Raquel Matias

1 Contesting the invisibilities of imperialism and institutional racism across Black Europe

Stephen Small

2 Black women in Lisbon at the dawn of the 20th century: A speculative portrait

Cristina Roldão

3 Decolonial iconoclasm

Norman Ajari

4 Sometimes heroes, sometimes maligned: Media, politics, and Barcelona Manteros in a Covid-19 context

Elisa Joy White

5 Deepening into the guts of European Modernity: Romanipen and Blackness as political antidote  against white domination

Sebijan Fejzula and Cayetano Fernández

6 Black culture matters: Struggle and liberation as acts  of culture

Apolo de Carvalho and Raquel Lima

7 Reflections on the role of whiteness in the production of Black Europe

Derek Pardue

8 Black Lisbon: Dialogues between the Afro-descendant artistic scene and the anti-racist struggle

Pedro Varela, Mélanie-Evely Pétrémont and Otávio Raposo

9 Pluricentric Portuguese in higher education: Dominance, non- dominance and legacies of racism

Ana Raquel Matias and Paulo Feytor Pinto

10 Scenographies of colonial and post-colonial memory in Portuguese literature (Fragments of memory in Africandescent literary authorship)

Inocência Mata

11 The colour of technology: How structural racism is building the digital society 

Rodrigo Ribeiro Saturnino

12 Table for upside down practices

Vânia Gala

13 Many races – one nation: Racial non-discrimination always the cornerstone of Portugal’s overseas policy

Herberto Smith

Biography

Cristina Roldão holds a PhD in Sociology and is an Invited Assistant Professor at the School of Education of the Polytechnic University of Setúbal (ESE-IPS) and Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon. She is also a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), Portugal.

Raquel Lima is a poet, performer, art educator and PhD Candidate in the “Post-Colonialism and Global Citizenship” Programme at the Centre for Social Studies and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (CES-FEUC), Portugal.

Pedro Varela is an anthropologist and integrated researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology - University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-Iscte), Portugal. He did his PhD at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.

Otávio Raposo holds a PhD in Anthropology and is an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Research Methods at the Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon. He is also a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), Portugal.

Ana Raquel Matias has a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon) and the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED, Paris). She is an Assistant Professor at the School of Sociology and Public Policies at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon and a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), Portugal.