Crossing Racial Borders: The Epistemic Empowerment of the Subaltern

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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.

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"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 Universit

Author Bio

Lenita Perrier is doctor of social anthropology at cole Des Hautes tudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris and author of Couleur de Peau et Reconnaissance Sociale (2016) and LAltrit et LIdentit LEpreuve de la Fluidit (2018).

Luis Martnez Andrade is doctor ofsociology at cole Des Hautes tudes En Sciences Sociales, Paris and author of Religion Without Redemption: Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America (2015); Feminismos A La Contra (2019); Ecologa y Teologa De La Liberacin: Critica De La Modernidad/Colonialidad (2019); Textos Sin Disciplina: Claves Para Una Teora Crtica Anticolonial (2020).