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Title: | History textbooks, racism and the critique of Eurocentrism: beyond rectification or compensation | Authors: | Araújo, Marta Rodríguez Maeso, Silvia |
Keywords: | Eurocentrism; Race; Racism; Portugal; Education; History textbooks | Issue Date: | 2012 | Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | Project: | FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-007554 | Serial title, monograph or event: | Ethnic and Racial Studies | Volume: | 35 | Issue: | 7 | Abstract: | This article is based on the theoretical framework developed within a research project on the construction of Eurocentrism and, more specifically, on the analysis of Portuguese history textbooks. We propose that the textbooks’ master narrative constitutes a power-evasive discourse on history, which naturalizes core processes such as colonialism, slavery and racism. Showing the limits of an approach that merely proposes the compensation or rectification of (mis)representations, we argue for the need to unbind the debate on Eurocentrism from a perspective that fails to make problematic the ‘very idea of Europe’. Accordingly, our analysis of Portuguese history textbooks focuses on three core narrative devices: (1) the chronopolitics of representation; (2) the paradigm of the (democratic) national state; and (3) the definitive bond between concepts and historical processes. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/42626 | ISSN: | 0141-9870 1466-4356 |
DOI: | 10.1080/01419870.2011.600767 10.1080/01419870.2011.600767 |
Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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