Teaching the History of Enslavement and Race in the Colony-Metropole Nexus
Publications
Publications
Araújo, M. (2026). The history education of slavery and race in post-2020 Europe. In S. Neto, A. Ribeiro, A. Gomes Ferreira, L. Mota, & C. Serrano (Eds.), National and global historical perspectives on textbooks: The Atlantic connection (pp. 163-179). Palgrave Macmillan.
Monteiro, F. O.; Miranda, S. & Barros, V. (2026). Representations on "discovery", enslavement and colonialism through Cabo Verde school textbooks. In S. Neto, A. Ribeiro, A. Gomes Ferreira, L. Mota, & C. Serrano (Eds.), National and global historical perspectives on textbooks: The Atlantic connection (pp. 181-193), Palgrave Macmillan.
Araújo, M. (2026). Hard lessons on racial inequality? A research agenda on "difficult knowledge" in the post-colonial classroom in Europe. Cambridge Journal of Education, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2026.2628017
Araújo, M. (2026). Escravatura, raça e racismo: Novas narrativas dos manuais de História em Portugal? Oficina do CES, 468. https://ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/oficina/ficheiros/49181_Oficina_do_CES_468.pdf
In press
Barros, V., & Miranda, S. S. (in press). Space, materiality and memory of slavery in Cabo Verde: The case of Cidade Velha in Santiago Island. In E. Peralta, J. Prinzleve, & C. Kalter (Eds.), Empire and the City. Routledge.
Other relevant publications by the team:
Araújo, M. (2025). Crossings and anchorages: The circulation of the painting The King's Fountain and the negotiation of post-colonial racial imaginaries in Portugal. Social Identities: Journal of the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, 1–19.
Monteiro, F. O., Barros, V., & Costa, S. (2024). The making of independent Cabo Verde: Militant non-alignment, active neutrality and fading anti-imperialism. In R. Lopes & N. Telepneva (Eds.), Globalizing independence struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and postcolonial politics. Bloomsbury.
Barros, V. (2024). Colonial monuments, Portuguese commemorations and the writing of the history of the colony of Cabo Verde. Contemporary European History, 33, 705–724.
Monteiro, F. O. (2023). Representações de Portugal nos manuais de ensino primário cabo-verdiano (1975–1990). Práticas da História: Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, 17, 41–81.
Araújo, M., & Nimako, K. (2022). Mobilizing history: Racism, enslavement and public debate in contemporary Europe. In S. A. Tate & E. Gutiérrez Rodríguez (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of critical race and gender (pp. 449–466). Palgrave Macmillan.
Bobrowicz-Campos, E., Matos, A., Festas, I., & Seixas, A. M. (2021). Media education within the national strategy for citizenship education: A study with Portuguese schools integrating the project for autonomy and curriculum flexibility. Sisyphus Journal of Education, 9(3), 7–29.

