Reflecting on contemporary epistemologies of European Blackness Long absent from research in the humanities and social sciences, Black people in continental Europe have become the focus of a growing body of literature in the past two decades that addresses their unique history and social positioning. Black Studies in Europe: An Anthology of Soil and Seeds brings together essays and case studies by a collective of scholars, writers, and activists to offer a critical overview of the emerging field of Black European studies and a vital reflection on contemporary epistemologies of European Blackness. This collection addresses key questions: What is Blackness from a European standpoint? Which epistemologies and theoretical tools have been used to offer a better understanding of Black experiences in Europe? How is this knowledge being produced and by whom? Can we define a common European conceptual framework for Black studies? Related to this work is an even more urgent enterprise: forging an epistemological distinction between the study of Black people and Black studies as an emancipatory project.
Recenzijos
Black Studies in Europe is a much awaited and needed volume that dismantles the epistemological violence of institutionalized paradigms, policies, and practices that have long omitted, silenced, invisibilized, and thereby disfigured Black life in Europe and European academies. This timely and distinct collection invites readers to engage with new perspectives, abiding diasporic tensions, and power-expertise-knowledge politics while elucidating not only the inevitability but also the undeniability of Black studies in Europe, a viable field that enriches our understanding of the intellectual history, lived experiences, and futures of Black peoples in those geographies. Trica Keaton, Dartmouth College
Foreword to Black Studies in Europe: Questioning the Politics of
Knowledge
Michelle M. Wright
Introduction
Lindah Leah Nyirenda
Black Studies in Europe: A Transnational Dialogue
Sarah Fila-Bakabadio, Nicole GrÉgoire, Jacinthe Mazzocchetti
Power, (Mis)representation, and Black European Studies
Kwame Nimako
Black Studies and Knowledge Production in England: Inside and Outside the
Academy
Stephen Small
Beyond Institution and Amorphous in Nature: Locating Black Studies in
Germany
Lioba Hirsch, Jamie Schearer-Udeh
Troubles to Define. The Unsettled Field of Black Studies in Belgium
Nicole GrÉgoire, Sibo Kanobana, Sarah Demart
The Imbricated Registers of Black Studies in France
Sarah Fila-Bakabadio
Black Studies in Italy: Which Way Forward?
Jacqueline Andall
Black European Studies in Spain (and the Case of the Afroeurope@ns Research
Team)
Marta SofĶa LÓpez
Spaniards are Black Too? The Deep Roots of Racism in Spain
Antumi ToasijÉ
Pathways for Black Studies in Portugal. A New Field of Knowledge and
Research
Iolanda Évora
Situating Afro-/African Swedish Studies
Michael McEachrane
Afterword. The Actual Transnationalization of Black Studies/African Diaspora
Studies: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
Jean Muteba Rahier
Nicole Gregoire is a research affiliate with the Laboratoire dAnthropologie des Mondes Contemporains at UniversitÉ Libre de Bruxelles. Sarah Fila-Bakabadio is an associate professor in the FacultÉ des Études Internationales et Interculturelles at CY Cergy Paris UniversitÉ. Jacinthe Mazzocchetti is a professor of political anthropology in the Laboratoire dAnthropologie Prospective at UniversitÉ Catholique de Louvain.
