Black Studies in Europe: An Anthology of Soil and Seeds
(2025) published
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- Our edited book entitled Black Studies in Europe: Questioning the Politics of Knowledge is an anthology of original essays by various scholars, writers, activists and artists offering a critical overview of the emerging field of Black Studies in Europe. After having long been absent from research in humanities and social sciences, for almost two decades black people in continental Europe have been the focus of a growing body of literature addressing their history and social trajectories. Our book is a groundbreaking effort in epistemologically addressing this knowledge production: How are “black” people considered from a European standpoint? Which epistemologies and theoretical tools have been used to offer a better understanding of the black experiences in Europe? How is this knowledge being produced, and by whom? Can we define a common European conceptual framework for Black Studies? Our book highlights that some European countries show a longer history and a more prolific scholarship than others in the study of people categorized as “Black”. Different approaches are being used, and different traditions are being formed. The relationships between scholarship, activism and the wider political landscape are more or less close, more or less explicit, more or less influential to each other, depending on the context. Hence, transversal to our book is the epistemological distinction between the study of black people and “Black Studies” as an emancipation project.
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Fila-Bakabadio Sarah, Mazzocchetti, J., & Grégoire Nicole. (2025). Black Studies in Europe: An Anthology of Soil and Seeds (Northwestern University Press). Northwestern University Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/246915