Black Studies in Europe

Nicole Gregoire is a research affiliate with the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains at UniversitÉ Libre de Bruxelles. Sarah Fila-Bakabadio is an associate professor in the FacultÉ des Études Internationales et Interculturelles at CY Cergy Paris UniversitÉ. Jacinthe Mazzocchetti is a professor of political anthropology in the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Prospective at UniversitÉ Catholique de Louvain.

“Black Studies in Europe is a much awaited and needed volume that dismantles the epistemological violence of institutionalized paradigms, policies, and practices that have long omitted, silenced, invisibilized, and thereby disfigured Black life in Europe and European academies. This timely and distinct collection invites readers to engage with new perspectives, abiding diasporic tensions, and power-expertise-knowledge politics while elucidating not only the ‘inevitability’ but also the undeniability of Black studies in Europe, a viable field that enriches our understanding of the intellectual history, lived experiences, and futures of Black peoples in those geographies.” —Trica Keaton, Dartmouth College

• Foreword to Black Studies in Europe: Questioning the Politics of Knowledge Michelle M. Wright Introduction Lindah Leah Nyirenda Black Studies in Europe: A Transnational Dialogue Sarah Fila-Bakabadio, Nicole GrÉgoire, Jacinthe Mazzocchetti Power, (Mis)representation, and Black European Studies Kwame Nimako Black Studies and Knowledge Production in England: Inside and Outside the Academy Stephen Small Beyond Institution and Amorphous in Nature: Locating Black Studies in Germany Lioba Hirsch, Jamie Schearer-Udeh Troubles to Define. The Unsettled Field of Black Studies in Belgium Nicole GrÉgoire, Sibo Kanobana, Sarah Demart The Imbricated Registers of Black Studies in France Sarah Fila-Bakabadio Black Studies in Italy: Which Way Forward? Jacqueline Andall Black European Studies in Spain (and the Case of the Afroeurope@ns Research Team) Marta SofÍa LÓpez Spaniards are “Black” Too? The Deep Roots of Racism in Spain Antumi ToasijÉ Pathways for Black Studies in Portugal. A New Field of Knowledge and Research Iolanda Évora Situating Afro-/African Swedish Studies Michael McEachrane Afterword. The Actual Transnationalization of Black Studies/African Diaspora Studies: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives Jean Muteba Rahier