Race and Ethnicity: Difference and Decolonization, Preliminary Edition

Introduction: How to Use This Reader

History I: Race in the Capitalist World System: Origins, Self/Other Dynamics and Western Epistemology
Benjamin of Tudela, “African and European Itineraries,” in: The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (1165 – 1173)
Jan Carew, “The End of the Moorish Enlightenment and the Beginning of the Columbian Era,”
Bartolome de las Casas, “Destruction of the Indies”
Sylvia Wynter, “Sambos and Minstrels”
Carl von Linne, “The God-Given Order of Nature”

History IV: Race in the United States: Freedom Struggles From Slavery to ‘Jim Crow,’ and Civil Rights
Howard Zinn, “Drawing the Color Line”
W. E. B. Du Bois, “Of The Dawn of Freedom,” Chapter II, in: The Souls Of Black Folk,
Ashraf Rushdy, “Exquisite Corpse”
Fannie Lou Hamer, in: My Soul Was Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered
W. E. B. Du Bois, “A Litany For Atlanta”

Theory I: 1960s Ruptures of Epistemology, Identity, Categories: From Anticolonialism and Intersectional Feminism to Decolonial Theory
W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Souls of White Folk”
Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”

Theory II: A Theory of Epistemology, Race and Class in the World System
Sylvia Wynter, “Black Education, Toward the Human, After “Man”: In the Manner of a Manifesto”
Sylvia Wynter, “Race and Our Biocentric Belief System: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter”