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  • Skin Color as Health Pathology: The Implications of Eurocentrism for Social Work Practice and Education
    British Journal of Education Society & Behavioural Science, 2015
    Co-Authors: Ronald E. Hall
    Abstract:

    People of color live shorter lives than those of European descent and they are more likely to encounter significant health risk. As pertains to skin color cardio disease, hypertension, depression and skin bleaching suggest that the current level of study involving skin color as health pathology is acutely insufficient. That insufficiency relative to health pathology is sustained by intellectual influences of Eurocentrism. Eurocentrism manifests as a tendency to interpret and prioritize the world in Western terms, values and experiences. That is all matters including disease which pertain to other than a Eurocentric existence are by irrelevance determined to be non-existent. If Social Work health practitioners in the U.S. are to understand people of color, understanding the implications of skin color for their overall health and well-being will be imperative to the assessment and ultimate resolution of their presenting problems.

  • Eurocentrism and the Postcolonial Implications of Skin Color Among Latinos
    Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2011
    Co-Authors: Ronald E. Hall
    Abstract:

    Eurocentrism is a worldview of the academic mainstream. It is grounded in a European perspective that manifests as a tendency to interpret and prioritize the world in Western terms, Western values,...

  • Implications of Eurocentrism for Social Work Education: Trivialization vis‐à‐vis Skin Color
    Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 2009
    Co-Authors: Ronald E. Hall
    Abstract:

    The significance of skin color among people of color and its relative absence in social work literature is arguably attributed to Eurocentrism. Eurocentrism defines human reality via Eurocentric norms, ideas, values and perspectives. Evidence of Eurocentrism in social work is contained in its literature priorities, skin color litigation, brown racism and skin bleaching. Demonstration of the aforementioned social pathologies involving skin color pertaining to people of color is a critical, existential phenomenon. If social work is to remain viable and be sustained in the future, it must conform to the dictates of changes in the population. That will require a commensurate adjustment and a willingness of its intelligentsia to accommodate skin color and other alternative views relative to education and practice.

  • implications of Eurocentrism for social work education trivialization vis a vis skin color
    Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 2009
    Co-Authors: Ronald E. Hall
    Abstract:

    The significance of skin color among people of color and its relative absence in social work literature is arguably attributed to Eurocentrism. Eurocentrism defines human reality via Eurocentric norms, ideas, values and perspectives. Evidence of Eurocentrism in social work is contained in its literature priorities, skin color litigation, brown racism and skin bleaching. Demonstration of the aforementioned social pathologies involving skin color pertaining to people of color is a critical, existential phenomenon. If social work is to remain viable and be sustained in the future, it must conform to the dictates of changes in the population. That will require a commensurate adjustment and a willingness of its intelligentsia to accommodate skin color and other alternative views relative to education and practice.

  • Psychological Colonization: The Eurocentrism of Sociology vis-à-vis Race:
    Current Sociology, 2003
    Co-Authors: Ronald E. Hall, Jonathan N. Livingston
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    Eurocentrism is a colonial influence that has impacted the thinking of scholars worldwide through the manufacture of ‘knowledge’. By virtue of this colonial influence race corresponds to psychological colonization. This applies to Eurocentrism among Filipinos, the main example explored in this article. Rethinking the significance of race is the beginning of an effort to rescue ‘knowledge’ by validating challenges to the significance of racial constructs. In order to enhance ‘knowledge’ and reduce the threats of ignorance, scholars and other concerned citizens must concede the ecological fact that all groups have cultural strengths that should be reinforced. Enabled by the study of culture, scholars will contribute to an effort to purge colonial influence from the western intellectual ethos.

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Eren Duzgun - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Against Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism: International Relations, Historical Sociology and Political Marxism
    Journal of International Relations and Development, 2020
    Co-Authors: Eren Duzgun
    Abstract:

    The critique of Eurocentrism has become one of the main benchmarks for critical scholarship in International Relations (IR). Unsurprisingly, the effort to overcome Eurocentric conceptions of world history has been at the forefront of the bourgeoning subfield of International Historical Sociology (IHS). In many anti-Eurocentric theorisations of IHS, Political Marxist approaches to world history have been posited as counter-models imbued with methodological ‘internalism’ and Eurocentrism. In this article, I critically re-evaluate the extent to which IHS has remedied the problem of Eurocentrism. Furthermore, I argue that the conventional critique of Political Marxism (PM) is largely off the mark and, indeed, IHS in general and the theory of Uneven and Combined Development in particular need PM to deepen the international sociological imagination and deliver a non-hierarchical reading of world history.

  • International Relations, Historical Sociology and the Eurocentrism Debate
    2016
    Co-Authors: Eren Duzgun
    Abstract:

    At the forefront of the bourgeoning field of International Historical Sociology has been the effort to overcome Eurocentric conceptions of world history. This review article reconsiders the issue of Eurocentrism by critically engaging with Alex Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu’s How the West Came to Rule, which is the most recent and arguably one of the most sophisticated contributions to the anti-Eurocentric turn in International Relations. How the West Came to Rule provides a critique of Eurocentrism through a systematic inquiry into the question of the origin of capitalism. Despite its originality, I argue that the book remains hamstrung by a number of methodological issues, which ultimately undermine the authors’ effort to go beyond the existing literature on Eurocentrism and provide a truly non-hierarchical international historical sociology. A clear specification of these problems, which haunt most anti-Eurocentric approaches to IR, provides us with the preliminary outlines of an alternative non-Eurocentric approach to world history.

Silvia Rodríguez Maeso - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction
    Eurocentrism Racism and Knowledge, 2015
    Co-Authors: Silvia Rodríguez Maeso, Marta Araújo
    Abstract:

    This edited collection is an interdisciplinary production, bringing the work of international scholars and political activists within a wide range of approaches and disciplines, including History, Anthropology, Political Sociology, Philosophy, International Relations, Political Economy and the Sociology of Education. It addresses key contemporary issues in the critique of Eurocentrism and racism, in relation to debates on the production, sedimentation and circulation of (scientific) knowledge, historical narratives and memories in Europe and the Americas. It takes as its crucial starting point the concept of Eurocentrism as grounded in the project of Modernity and, in particular, its specific configuration of colonialism, history and Being which has led to the emergence of race as a key organizing principle in the modern world order from the geopolitical perspective of the creation of Europe/Europeanness, the expression of its hegemony and its contestation.

  • Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge: Debates on History and Power in Europe and the Americas
    2015
    Co-Authors: Marta Araújo, Silvia Rodríguez Maeso
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    1. Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction Silvia Rodriguez Maeso and Marta Araujo 2. Epistemic Racism/Sexism, Westernized Universities and the Four Genocides/Epistemicides of the Long 16th Century Ramon Grosfoguel 3. Violence and Coloniality in Latin America: An Alternative Reading of Subalternization, Racialization, and Viscerality Arturo Arias 4. Social Races and Decolonial Struggles in France Sadri Khiari 5. Towards a Critique of Eurocentrism: Remarks on Wittgenstein, Philosophy and Racism S. Sayyid 6. How Post-colonial and Decolonial Theories Are Received in Europe and the Idea of Europe Montserrat Galceran Huguet 7. Africanist Scholarship, Eurocentrism and the Politics of Knowledge Branwen Gruffydd Jones 8. Scientific Colonialism: the Eurocentric Approach to Colonialism Sandew Hira 9. Secrets, Lies, Silences and Invisibilities: Unveiling the Participation of Africans in the Mozambique Front during World War I Maria Paula Meneses and Margarida Gomes 10. Conceptual Clarity, Please! On the Uses and Abuses of the Concepts of 'Slave' and 'Trade' in the Study of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery Kwame Nimako 11. Making Compulsory the Teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African History and Culture: Tensions and Contradictions for Anti-racist Education in Brazil Nilma Lino Gomes 12. Race and Racism in Mexican History Textbooks: A Silent Presence Dolores Ballesteros Paez 13. Social Mobilization and the Public History of Slavery in the United States Stephen Small

  • History textbooks, racism and the critique of Eurocentrism: beyond rectification or compensation
    Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2011
    Co-Authors: Marta Araújo, Silvia Rodríguez Maeso
    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 naturalises 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: a) the chronopolitics of representation; b) the paradigm of the (democratic) national State; c) the definitive bond between concepts and historical processes.

Robert Stam - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • unthinking Eurocentrism multiculturalism and the media
    1994
    Co-Authors: Ella Shohat, Robert Stam
    Abstract:

    Introduction 1. From Eurocentrism to Polycentrism 2. Formations of Colonialist Discourse 3. The Imperial Imaginary 4. Tropes of Empire 5. Stereotype, Realism and the Struggle over Representation 6. Ethnicities-in-Relation 7. The Third Worldist Film 8. Aesthetics of Resistance 9. The Politics of Multiculturalism in the Postmodern Age 10. Twenty Years After: Thinking about Unthinking

  • Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media
    1994
    Co-Authors: Ella Shohat, Robert Stam
    Abstract:

    Introduction 1. From Eurocentrism to Polycentrism 2. Formations of Colonialist Discourse 3. The Imperial Imaginary 4. Tropes of Empire 5. Stereotype, Realism and the Struggle over Representation 6. Ethnicities-in-Relation 7. The Third Worldist Film 8. Aesthetics of Resistance 9. The Politics of Multiculturalism in the Postmodern Age 10. Twenty Years After: Thinking about Unthinking

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