Crossing Racial Borders

Lenita Perrier is doctor of social anthropology at École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales, Paris and author of Couleur de Peau et Reconnaissance Sociale (2016) and L’Altérité et L’Identité à L’Epreuve de la Fluidité (2018).Luis Martínez Andrade is doctor ofsociology at École Des Hautes Études En Sciences Sociales, Paris and author of Religion Without Redemption: Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America (2015); Feminismos A La Contra (2019); Ecología y Teología De La Liberación: Critica De La Modernidad/Colonialidad (2019); Textos Sin Disciplina: Claves Para Una Teoría Crítica Anticolonial (2020).

• IntroductionLenita Perrier and Luis Martínez AndradePart 1Necropolitics and Race // Hunger, Violence, and InvisibilityChapter 1: Necropolitics and Coloniality of Power in Latin AmericaLuis Martínez AndradeChapter 2: Decoloniality and Reading Carolina Maria de Jesus in Public SchoolVeruschka de Sales AzevedoChapter 3: Rhythms of the Margins: Subversive Decolonial Narratives and PracticesCatarina de Figueiredo RamosChapter 4: Afro-Brazilian Perspectives and Decolonial ThoughtNádia Maria Cardoso da SilvaPart 2Crossing Racial Borders // Whiteness, Fraud, and SilencingChapter 5: Black-White-Coloniality: Race in a Transmodern Decolonial SettingLenita PerrierChapter 6: Coloniality through Whiteness: Brazilian Academia and the Exclusion of Black Students’ RightsSales Augusto dos SantosChapter 7: The Decolonial Poetics in Torto AradoJanaína de FigueiredoChapter 8: Virgínia Leone Bicudo and Her Perspective of the “Outsider Within.” What She Saw that Donald Pierson Did Not

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.