DECOLONISATION
Decolonisation is a term that refers to meaningfully addressing the impact of colonisation on peoples, places, and knowledges. In particular, decolonisation is seen as an approach to change that involves dissolving the ideas that continue to justify colonialism just as White supremacy, racial hierarchy, race more broadly, anti-Black racism, imperialism etc. It also involves the redistribution of resources to the Black and Indigenous peoples who were dispossessed and harmed by colonialism. The resources here unpack some of the conversations at the heart of this approach.
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples - book
The news media are not neutral or objective. Research shows that the news repeats and reinforces negative themes about Māori that date from the earliest days of colonisation. These negative themes present Māori interests’.
Decolonizing Knowledge - Youtube video
Decolonizing Knowledge is a conversation between Dr. Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Dr. Michelle Fine, and Dr. Andrew Jolivette on community-based research within indigenous and people of color communities worldwide. This event recognizes two signature moments in the struggle towards Research Justice—the second edition release of Linda Smith's seminal work, "Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples," and DataCenter's 35th anniversary.
Decolonize myself - A first nations perspective -Facebook page
This page is in response to the very one sided Hobson's Pledge FB page that has taken to blocking people who present reasoned opinion.
Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization
Edited by Peter McFarlane & Nicole Schabus, this handbook brings together some of the most important Indigenous academics, activists and allies to explore the impacts of colonization on Indigenous peoples and to look at paths toward decolonization that can right those wrongs and may, some day, lead us toward true reconciliation.
Decolonization is not a metaphor By Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang, - academic article
“Our goal in this article is to remind readers what is unsettling about decolonization. Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools. The easy adoption of decolonizing discourse by educational advocacy and scholarship, evidenced by the increasing number of calls to “decolonize our schools,” or use “decolonizing methods,” or, “decolonize student thinking”, turns decolonization into a metaphor”.
ihartericka - Instagram page
Ericka Hart, M.Ed. She/They is a sex educator, racial/social/gender justice disruptor, writer, breast cancer survivor and model who explores many aspects of decolonisation on their Instagram page. She provides in-depth explorations of the way that anti-Blackness operates in the USA and globally through analysis of current events. A lot of the labour they do is unpaid so if you are consuming their content consider reciprocating through PayPal ericka@ihartericka.com.
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast - Podcast
“A Decolonized Podcast for lovers on the margins, join your resident sexuality educator Ericka Hart and Deep East Oakland's very own Ebony Donnley, as we game give, dismantle white supremacy and kiki in the cosmos somewhere between radical hood epistemological black queer love ethics, pop culture, house plants and a sea of books”.
Some of the topics they explore include ‘OCT 4, 2018 Will the World Ever Change or it Will it Continue to White?’, ‘Everybody wanna be black til it's time to be white: Non-Black POC & AAVE in service of Antiblackness’, and ‘Diversity and Inclusion is for White People: Beyond Bruno Mars, and the Love of Light Skin’.
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