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).

Introduction

Lenita Perrier and Luis Martínez Andrade

Part 1

Necropolitics and Race // Hunger, Violence, and Invisibility

Chapter 1: Necropolitics and Coloniality of Power in Latin America

Luis Martínez 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

Nádia 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

Janaína de Figueiredo

Chapter 8: Virgínia Leone Bicudo and Her Perspective of the “Outsider Within.” What She Saw that Donald Pierson Did Not

Nádia 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 Martínez Andrade

About the Contributors