{"product_id":"ministros-da-noite-o-livro-negro-da-expansao-portuguesa","title":"Ministers of the Night - The Black Book of Portuguese Expansion","description":"\u003cp\u003eA work of undeniable relevance in times of structural racism – impossible to cover up like the sun with a sieve –, visible in police violence, in newspaper articles and in misguided ideas such as the construction of museums that celebrate the discoveries, Ministros da Noite – Livro Negro da Expansão Portuguesa (1991) reaches its fourth edition, with a new preface by Ana Barradas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of texts gathered from five centuries of national historiography is an attempt to dismantle the colonial discourse that has accommodated our culture to nationalism and xenophobia. A discourse today modernized, wrapped in the polished garments of neoliberalism, served on a tray with the grandiloquence proper to a regime of nouveau riche, prosaic heir to the acute commemorativism revived by the fascism of the 30s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProviding a broad-scope overview – from the enslavement of Africans to the genocide of indigenous peoples, from maritime voyages to the colonial war – and a testimony of the despised history that was the resistance to Portuguese expansionism, this book recognizes without flinching the deceit of the exception of national colonialism, revealing the underside of the civilizing triumphs and the heroic saga of the daring navigators that the boastful propaganda trumpeted, with echoes in today's generations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antígona","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53906054676746,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/AnaBarradas-Ministrosdanoite.jpg?v=1791906154","url":"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/en\/products\/ministros-da-noite-o-livro-negro-da-expansao-portuguesa","provider":"Maldita Livraria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}