Making an obvious reference to Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America, this volume proves that the veins of the postcolonial remain open, having prolonged and reproduced themselves over the course of decades. "The Open Veins of the Postcolonial" traces the emergence of epistemological categories and offers thematic analyses of racial and ethnic differences, as well as those arising from sociability, representations, and sociopolitical and cultural dynamics. This volume likewise unmasks the naturalizing discourse of the ideology of subalternity and institutionalized discrimination through various "beliefs" and tacit practices; discusses how to articulate the place of belonging with ethno-racial identity in the twenty-first century; and contributes to the broad discussion initiated by the United Nations' declaration of the International Decade for People of African Descent, 2015–2024 (Resolution 68/237).

INOCÊNCIA MATA is professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon. Her most recent publications include O Papel do Cidadão em Tempos de (Des)Encantos (2018) and Discursos Memorialistas Africanos e a Construção da História (2018). IOLANDA ÉVORA is associate researcher at the Center for African and Development Studies at the University of Lisbon, and most recently author of Diáspora cabo-verdiana (2016).