The essays in Europe in Black and White offer new critical perspectives on race, immigration, and identity on the Old Continent. In reconsidering the various forms of encounters with difference, such as multiculturalism and hybridity, the contributors address a number of issues, including the cartography of postcolonial Europe, its relation to the production of "difference" and "race," and national and identity politics and their dependence on linguistic practices inherited from imperial times. Featuring scholars from a wide variety of nationalities and disciplinary areas, this collection will speak to an equally wide readership.

Manuela Ribeiro Sanches is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon. Fernando Clara is a senior lecturer at the Faculty for the Humanities and the Social Sciences at the New University of Lisbon. João Ferreira Duarte is professor at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon. Leonor Pires Martins is an anthropologist and researcher at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.

Europe in Black and White
    Manuela Ribeiro Sanches

Part I: The Problem with Europe
Chapter 1: The Culture Wars in Translation
    Robert Stam and Ella Shohat
Chapter 2: Nations Re-bound: Race and Biopolitics at EU and US Borders
    John D. Márquez
Chapter 3: New Maps of Europe by Some Contemporary 'Migrant' Artists and Writers
    Francesco Cattani
Chapter 4: "Beware Behalfies!" Contradictory Affiliations in Salman Rushdie's Step Across This Line
    Ana Cristina Mendes
Chapter 5: A Cape Verdian View of Europe: History and Geography Revised in the Writings 
of G. T. Didial
    Ana Salgueiro Rodrigues
Chapter 6: On the Periphery of the Universal and the Splendour of Eurocentrism
    Inocência Mata
Chapter 7: Opportunities, Politics and Subjectivity in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon's Non-governmental Organizations
    Susana Durão

Part II: Building Walls: Race and Difference
Chapter 8: Technologies of Othering: Black Masculinities in the Carceral Zones of European Whiteness
    Uli Linke
Chapter 9: Reverses of Modernity: Postcolonialism and Post-Holocaust
    António Sousa Ribeiro
Chapter 10: White Resentment—The Other Side of Belonging
    Vron Ware
Chapter 11: 'Mestizaje', 'Mestiçagem', 'Métissage': Useful Concepts?
    Capucine Boidin
Chapter 12: Studies in Brown: Seductions and Betrayals of Hybridity in Richard Burton and Gilberto Freyre
    Anna M. Klobucka

Part III: Language as Contact Zone or the Disavowal of Empire
Chapter 13: Old Empires, New Cartographies: Problematizing 'Lusophone Categorizations'
    Elena Brugioni
Chapter 14: Spectacles, Lenses and Magnifying Glasses: Critical Approaches in the Definition of the Canon of African Literatures in the Portuguese Language
    Livia Apa
Chapter 15: Literary Responses in Postcolonial and Post-Imperial Europe: The Literatures of Diaspora in Portugal and Britain
    João Cosme
Chapter 16: Voices in Shades of Grey
    Phillip Rothwell

Abstracts and Biographical Notes
Index