Vol. 8 No. 16 (2019): Racism, Negritude and Gender: Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
The question of the "black man", of his "negritude" and humanity, is at the heart of contemporary debates on racism and colonial and (post-)colonial violence. Present among the poets of "negritude" (Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon), however, the "mythical" dimension in the imaginary of the return to Africa is questioned by Afro-Antillean authors - creolists - such as Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, among others.
In Africa, the African/black centrality in world history, appears today discussed in the debates on African philosophy, partly unknown in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This dossier invites a conversation between different knowledges that challenge the Eurocentrism that has mediated the south-south relations that materialized in what Valentin Mudimbe defines as "colonial library", and invites us to think about the historicity of those dialogues crossed by practices of intercultural translation that confront and subvert the colonial projects in progress.
