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Of course American elites are tempted to stigmatize words that offend their preferred image of a still-dominant, liberal-democratic West. An error has occurred ...
Since the summer of George Floyd, education organizations, from the National Council of Teachers of English to the National Education Association, have promoted the concept of “decolonizing” education ...
Northern Illinois University (NIU) is planning on hosting several sessions for faculty and instructors that tackle topics like "White fatigue," "antiracism," and "decolonization in the classroom." The ...
Constanza Eliana Chinea, founder of Embody Inclusivity, shares why she has built a business around BIPOC centering in wellness. “How do I create my own thing?” and “How do I take up more space so that ...
Through the last few years of American politics, we’ve seen a decided shift on the part of the American left toward what one could term “aesthetic decolonization.” By this, I mean the push for ...
Decolonization focuses on issues like resisting oil and natural gas pipelines that affect Indigenous people. Credit: Nicole Neri/Bloomberg via Getty Images If you've never heard the term "decolonize" ...
Elon Musk has criticized efforts to decolonize the birthplace of William Shakespeare in England in a bid to make it more inclusive. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust said that it was considering ...
Saidiya V. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 18. Ian Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic: Finance ...
Decolonization is synonymous with liberation. It is invoked in multiple overlapping geopolitical projects that demand both the undoing of imperial-colonial structures and the amelioration of their ...