Epistemic Decolonization from a Black-Brazilian Perspective examines how Brazilian universities continue to reproduce epistemic racism and sexism despite important advances such as racial affirmative action policies. Situating these dynamics within the broader history of colonialism and higher education in Brazil, the book argues that Black intellectual traditions offer powerful resources for confronting the enduring structures of epistemic exclusion.

At the center of the book is a Black-Brazilian genealogy of decolonizing thought. Nádia Maria Cardoso da Silva revisits the work of pioneers such as Virgínia Bicudo, Brazil's first Black sociologist, and Guerreiro Ramos to show their foundational contributions to twentieth-century decolonial thinking. She examines Candomblé communities, quilombola territories and Black social movements as living sites of knowledge production and resistance and presents Black women as key agents of decolonization.

Bringing together social theory, Black Brazilian thought, decolonial studies, and the experiences of Black movements, Epistemic Decolonization from a Black-Brazilian Perspective proposes a distinctive approach to epistemic decolonization grounded in Afro-Brazilian histories, ancestral knowledge systems, and ongoing struggles for racial and epistemic justice. It offers an original contribution to debates on decoloniality, race, knowledge production, and higher education in the Americas.