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Series Title
Critical South
The publication of this series is supported by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Series editors: Natalia Brizuela, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi and Leticia Sabsay
Leonor Arfuch, Memory and Autobiography
Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia, Seven Essays on Populism
Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black
Bolívar Echeverría, Modernity and “Whiteness”
Malcom Ferdinand, Decolonial Ecology
Celso Furtado, The Myth of Economic Development
Eduardo Grüner, The Haitian Revolution
Karima Lazali, Colonia Trauma
María Pia López, Not One Less
Pablo Oyarzun, Doing Justice
Néstor Perlongher, Plebeian Prose
Bento Prado Jr., Error, Illusion, Madness
Nelly Richard, Eruptions of Memory
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax utxiwa
Tendayi Sithole, The Black Register
Maboula Soumahoro, Black is the Journey, Africana the Name
Decolonial Ecology
Thinking from the Caribbean World
Malcom Ferdinand
Translated by Anthony Paul Smith
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Table of Ships
Conquérant
Planter
Nègre
La Tempête
Noé
Chasseur
Paraíso
Cavendish
Wildfire
Espérance
Escape
Wanderer
Gaïa