Black studies in Europe. A transnational dialogue
(2025) Black Studies in Europe. An Anthology of Soil and Seeds — ISBN: [9780810148758], 3-19, published
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- The intention of Black studies is to provoke a real shift in the politics of knowledge and to “embrace novel anti-essentialist theorizing preoccupied to incorporate the multidimensionality of Black diversity in its purview”. The ambition is also to revisit, describe, and historicize how knowledge about Black people has been produced so far, and to take seriously the imperialist context of its emergence and its implications on research shaped by “race, power, misrepresentation and lies designed to justify the domination of Africans and their descendants”. Moreover, the ambition is to document the impact of Black thought and presence in Europe through time and space, but also to describe the past and current everyday life of Black Europeans, with an emancipation goal. As Small says of the UK, but which could be extended to Europe, in the academy “there is limited focus on Black people as the primary agents of social change that has made England more democratic, more humane and more socially just”.
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Mazzocchetti, J., Nicole Grégoire, & Sarah Fila-Bakabadio. (2025). Black studies in Europe. A transnational dialogue. In Grégoire N., Fila-Bakabadio S., Mazzocchetti J. (ed.), Black Studies in Europe. An Anthology of Soil and Seeds (Première édition, pp. 3-19). Northwestern University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/277117