Crossing Racial Borders: The Epistemic Empowerment of the Subaltern explores critically the racial, socioeconomic, historical, and political contemporary conditions of the lived experiences of the subaltern, the oppressed. Through the lens of the decolonial school of thought developed by Latin American thinkers and scholars, this text focuses on the identification and analysis of the subalterns' praxis of living, thinking, knowing, and doing. The contributors delve into the subalterns' agency at work and how their [inter]subjective/reflective actions, gestures, and thoughts are deep-seated in subverting and resisting the material and symbolic coloniality of power's exploitation, categorization, and oppression. Drawing from sociological, anthropological, literary, and historical approaches, a new set of ideas and rationalities uncovers and challenges the complicities of modernity/coloniality (power-pattern-matrix) through new narratives and discursive epistemic-frames of empowerment and agency.
Lenita Perrier is doctor of social anthropology at Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris and author of Couleur de Peau et Reconnaissance Sociale (2016) and L'Alterite et L'Identite a L'Epreuve de la Fluidite (2018). Luis Martinez Andrade is doctor ofsociology at Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris and author of Religion Without Redemption: Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America (2015); Feminismos A La Contra (2019); Ecologia y Teologia De La Liberacion: Critica De La Modernidad/Colonialidad (2019); Textos Sin Disciplina: Claves Para Una Teoria Critica Anticolonial (2020).
Introduction Lenita Perrier and Luis Martinez Andrade Part 1 Necropolitics and Race // Hunger, Violence, and Invisibility Chapter 1: Necropolitics and Coloniality of Power in Latin America Luis Martinez Andrade Chapter 2: Decoloniality and Reading Carolina Maria de Jesus in Public School Veruschka de Sales Azevedo Chapter 3: Rhythms of the Margins: Subversive Decolonial Narratives and Practices Catarina de Figueiredo Ramos Chapter 4: Afro-Brazilian Perspectives and Decolonial Thought Nadia Maria Cardoso da Silva Part 2 Crossing Racial Borders // Whiteness, Fraud, and Silencing Chapter 5: Black-White-Coloniality: Race in a Transmodern Decolonial Setting Lenita Perrier Chapter 6: Coloniality through Whiteness: Brazilian Academia and the Exclusion of Black Students' Rights Sales Augusto dos Santos Chapter 7: The Decolonial Poetics in Torto Arado Janaina de Figueiredo Chapter 8: Virginia Leone Bicudo and Her Perspective of the "Outsider Within." What She Saw that Donald Pierson Did Not Nadia Maria Cardoso da Silva Part 3 Interviews Interview with Anthropologist and Professor Ari Lima / "Ari's Case Twenty Years After" Lenita Perrier Interview with Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature Amal Eqeiq / "The (Hi)story Is Not Over" Luis Martinez Andrade About the Contributors
"Crossing Racial Borders: The Epistemic Empowerment of the Subaltern offers an indispensable understanding and is full of accurate assessments of the miseries of contemporary 'peripheral' capitalism from the angle of the decolonial aspect. In the face of modern barbarism, the book's analysis encourages how the decolonization of power and knowledge can be an instrument of resistance in the battle of struggles and ideas." -- Deni Alfaro Rubbo, State University of Mato Grosso do Sul "This book, Crossing Racial Borders, is a remarkable body of scholarship. It encourages us to think more deeply about decoloniality from the lived experiences of racialised populations in the Global South. The essays and interviews bring up the voices of artists, scholars, and authors who turn decoloniality into a productive framework to address race, modernity, and empowerment. This book is a compelling contribution to critical thinking in our troubled times." -- Sarah Fila-Bakabadio, CY Cergy Paris Universite
