Diego Ballestero is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology of the Americas at the University of Bonn and at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University.Erik Petschelies is Postdoctoral Fellow in Social History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

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• Introduction: Race, Anthropology and (De)Coloniality - Diego Ballestero and Erik PetscheliesPart I: Unravelling the Traces of Coloniality: The Epistemological Construction of “Race” in the Global South and North.1. Race, Miscegenation, and Darwinism in 19th Century Brazil - Erik Petschelies2. Seeing Colours: The “Brésil, Terre Rouge” of Dina Dreyfus Lévi-Strauss - Fernanda Azeredo de Moraes3. Georg Forster on Race from Vilnius, 1785–1787: Transformations and (De)Coloniality - Vida Savoniakaitė4. ‘Race’ as a Structural Element in the Portuguese Colonial Empire: The Involvement of the State and Science and Current Decolonial Challenges - Patrícia Ferraz de MatosPart II: The Intertwined Threads of Coloniality: Studies About and Beyond Race5. Spaces of Coloniality and Racialized Bodies: Anthropological Research on the Qom in Late 19th-Century Argentina - Diego Ballestero6. Decolonizing the Safari in Eastern Africa - Oduor Obura7. 100 Percent Japanese?: DNA Ancestry, Colonial Modernity and the Decolonial Negotiation of Identity - Shikoh Shiraiwa8. Antiblack Pipe and the Problem of Alterity: Infrastructure, Race and Anthropology - Stella Z. Paterniani, Antonádia Borges and Gustavo BelisárioEpilogue: The Weight of Words: Race, Power, and the Colonial Academy - Mary Rambaran-Olm