Decolonizing Arts-Based Methodologies: Researching the African Diaspora

by Paula D. Royster

The genealogy of racism dates back to 610 AD when Islamic jihadists invented whiteness as a religious justification for deracinating and enslaving African people out of East Africa and into Southeastern Europe for more than 1,300 years.

Through a new interdisciplinary research methodology, Ancestorology, a taxonomy of Western cultural and visual productions of history are juxtaposed with the social stratifications of the African Diaspora...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004446117
• ISBN13: 9789004446113
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 198 Pages