Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.
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...
Summary:
"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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