Reading List
Welcome to our Hub's Reading List! Here, you will find a collection of recommended resources related to decolonizing education. We are continuously growing this list, so we welcome any recommendations you may have. Thanks for helping us create a more equitable and inclusive educational environment.
Challenging Eurocentricity
Quijano, Anibal and Michael Ennis. (2000). Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Latin America. Nepantla: Views from South 1(3):533-580.
Vázquez, Rolando. (2011). Translation as Erasure: Thoughts on Modernity's Epistemic Violence, Journal of Historical Sociology 24 (1): 27-44.
Mignolo, Walter D. (2007). Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of De-coloniality. Cultural Studies 21 (2). ('Epistemic delinking p. 3-6'. 'p.29-34').
Land and Place with Indigenous North Americans
Simpson, A. (2014). Mohawk interruptus: Political life across the borders of settler states. Durham; London: Duke University Press. p.7-19.
Silko, L., M. (1981). Storyteller. New York: U.S.A. p. 14-16, p. 48-55, p.150-54.
Coleman, D. (2016). Indigenous Place and Diaspora Space: Of Literalism and Abstraction. Settler Colonial Studies 6(1):1-17.
Folklore and the Imaginary with Indigenous and Diasporic Africans
Sertima, I. (1976). They Came Before Columbus. New York: Random House Publishing Group.p1-330. p. 1-10, 48-60.
Plaatje, S., T. (1930). Mhudi. Johannesburg: London. (“Tragedy and its Vendetta”), (“Mhudi and I”)
Gates, H. F. (2011). Life Beyond These Shores: African American History 1512-2008. New York: Knopf Random House. P.1-5.
Gates, Henry L. (1988). The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press. (Introduction pp. 1-6)
Celebrating Nativity with Indigenous South and East Asians
Ashwar, M. (2015). Decolonizing What? Categories, Concepts, and the Enduring 'not yet.' Cultural Dynamics 27(2):1-13.
Sugisita, K. (2006). Japanese Modernity. Theory, Culture & Society 23(2–3):1-3.
Dhareshwar, V. (2012). Framing the Predicament of Indian Thought: Gandhi, Gira and Ethical Action. Asian Philosophy 22(2):1-19.
Intersectionality
Carbado, Devon W., Kimberle Crenshaw, Vickie Mays and Barbara Tomlinson. (2013). Intersectionality: Mapping the Movements of a Theory. Du Bois Review 10(2):303-312.
Collins, Patricia H. (2019). Intersectionality as a Critical Social Theory. Durham: Duke University Press. (Introduction: Part I, II, III, IV pp. 1-18).
Critical Race Studies
Asare, Janice. 2021. “The War on Critical Race Theory Continues and Some Call it Anti-White.” Forbes. Retrieved May 30th, 2021. ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2021/05/09/the-war-on- critical-race-theory-continues-as-some-call-it-anti-white/?sh=3e2b472373a7)
Appiah, Kwame. 1985. "The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and The Illusion of Race." Critical Inquiry. 12 (1): 21–37.
Aylward, Carol. 1999. Canadian Critical Race Theory: Racism and the Law. Fernwood Publishing: Halifax.
Austin, David. 2010. "Narratives of Power: Historical Mythologies in Contemporary Quebec and Canada" Race and Class 52(1): 19-32.
Bachman, Brett. 2021. "DeSantis Signs Bill Requiring Students, Professors to Register Political Views with State". The Salon. Retrieved June 23rd, 2021. https://www.salon.com/2021/06/23/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-florida-students-professors-to-register-political-views-with-state/?fbclid=IwAR3kzPONcOirNg_ZpIfgxlIl2B70yWOus0IcENIuHqc-ldc5k_fV3BrCeYs
Bell, Derrick. 1995. "Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory" University of Illinois Law Review p.1-19.
Bonds, Anne., and Joshua Inwood. (2015). Beyond White Privilege: Geographies of White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism. Progress in Human Geographies 40(6): 715-733.
Carbado, D. W., K Crenshaw, V., Mays and B., Tomlinson. (2013). Intersectionality: Mapping the Movements of a Theory. Du Bois Review 10(2):303-312.
Collins, P. H. 2004. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, gender, and the new racism. Routledge.
Collins, Patricia H. 2006. "New Commodities, New Consumers: Selling Blackness in a Global Marketplace." Ethnicities 6(3):297-317.
Collins, Patricia H. 2019. Intersectionality as a Critical Social Theory. Durham: Duke University Press.
Cole, Desmond. 2020. The Skin We're In. London, England: Doubleday.
Cooper, Afua. 2007. "Act of Resistance: Black Men and Women Engage Slavery in Upper Canada, 1793-1803". Ontario History 99(1):1-14.
Delgado, Richard. 2009. "Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory". Alabama Law Scholarly Commons 1(27):1-44.
Delgado, Richard, and Jean Stefancic. 2001.Critical Race Theory: An Introduction. New York: New York University Press, 2012.
Dei, George. 2018. "Black Like Me: Reframing Blackness for Decolonial Politics". Educational Studies 54(2): 1-27.
Dei, George. 1996. "Critical Perspectives in Antiracism: An Introduction" The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 33(3):1-21.
Dubois, William E. 1885. "The Study of the N* Problems." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 11(1):1-23.
Duncans, Garrett A. 2010. "Beyond Love: A Critical Race Ethnography of the Schooling of Adolescent Black Males." Equity & Excellence in Education 35(2):131-143.
Evans-Winters, Venus E., and Jennifer Esposito. 2010. "Other Peoples Daughters: Critical Race Feminism and Black Girls Education" Educational Foundations 24(1-2):1-14.
Fanon, Franz.1986. Black Skin, White Masks. Chapter 5: The Fact of Blackness. Pluto Press: United Kingdom.
Go, Julian. 2018. "Postcolonial Possibilities for the Sociology of Race.: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 4(4): 1-13.
Gordon, Lewis. 2015. What Fanon Said. New York: Fordham University Press.
Harris, Angela. (2012). Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition. New York; London: New York University Press. (pp. 32-36, 71-75, 87-105).
Harris, Cheryl. 1993. "Whiteness as Property" Harvard Law Review 106(8): 1-86.
Harris, A., F., Valdes and J., M. Culp. 2002. Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition. New York; London: New York University Press.
Harris, Adam. "The GOPs Critical Race Theory Obsession". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 7th, 2021. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/gops-critical-race-theory-fixation-explained/618828/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20210628&silverid=%25%25RECIPIENT_ID%25%25&utm_term=The%20Atlantic%20Daily
Hall, Stuart. 1986. "Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity". Journal of Communication Inquiry 10(2):5-27.
hooks, b. 1992. Black Looks Race and Representation. New York: Routledge.
Feith, Jessie. 2020. "A Timeline of Police Violence Against Racialized People in Montreal" Montreal Gazette. Retrieved July 2nd, 2020. https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/a-timeline-of-police-violence-against-people-of-colour-in-montreal
Jones, Alexandra. 2020. "Walmart Canada Faces Backlash for Selling All Lives Matter T-Shirt Online" CTV News. Retrieved May 28th, 2021. (https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/walmart-canada-faces- backlash-for-selling-all-lives-matter-t-shirt-online-1.4996706).
Kumasi, Kafi. 2011. Chapter seven, "Critical Race Theory and Education: Mapping A Legacy of Activism and Scholarship" In Levinson, B. AU (Ed) Beyond Critique: Critical Social Theories and Education (pp 196-219). Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Ladson-Billings, Gloria. `1997. "Chapter seven: I Know Why This Does Not Feel Empowering – A Critical Race Analysis of Critical Pedagogy" Counterpoints 60 (1):127-141.
Leonardo, Zeus. 2004. "The Unhappy Marriage Between Marxism and Race Critique: Political Economy and the Production of Racialized Knowledge. Policy Futures in Education 2(3/4): 1-11.
Loomba, Anna. 1998. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. New York: Routledge.
Lang, Cady. 2020. "President Trump Has Attacked Critical Race Theory. Here's What to Know About the Intellectual Movement". The Times. Retrieved May 28th, 2021. (https://time.com/5891138/critical- race-theory-explained/).
Luciani, Patrick. 2021 "Push back on the new theories breaching high school history classes". TheHub. Retrieved June 15th, 2020. https://thehub.ca/2021-06-15/patrick-luciani-push-back-on-the-new-theories-breaching-high-school-history-classes/
Maynard, Robyn. 2017. Policing Black lives. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing Press.
Meckler, Laura, and Hanna Natanson. 2021. "As Schools Expand Racial Equity Work, Conservatives See a New Threat in Critical Race Theory." Washington Post. Retrieved May 28th, 2021.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/03/critical-race-theory-backlash/
Mueller, Jennifer. 2018. "Advancing a Sociology of Ignorance in the Study of Racism and Racial Non-Knowing" Sociology Compass.
Sharpe, Christina. 2016. In the Wake: on Blackness and Being. Durham Duke University Press
Solomos, John and Les Back. 1995. "Marxism, Racism and Ethnicity". American Behavioral Scientist 38(3):1-9.
Somerville, Siobhan. 1994. "Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body". The Journal of the History of Sexuality 5(2): 243-266.
Trevino, A., Michelle Harris, and Derron Wallace. 2008. "What's so Critical About Critical Race Theory." Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social and Restorative Justice 11(1):1-12.
Rabaka, Reiland. 2011. "Revolutionary Fanonism: On Frantz Fanon's Modification of Marxism and Decolonization of Democratic Socialism" Socialism and Democracy 25(1):1-21.
Razack, S. 1998. Looking white people in the eye: Gender, race, and culture in courtrooms and classrooms. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Williams, P. J. 1991. The alchemy of race and rights. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Walcott, Rinaldo. 1997. Black like Who? Writing Black Canada. Toronto, Ont: Insomniac Press.
Walcott, Rinaldo. 2014. "The Book of Others: Canadian Multiculturalism, the State and its Political Legacies." Canadian Ethnic Studies 46(2):127-132
Decolonial Feminism and Queer Studies
Davis, Angela. (2012). The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues. San Francisco: City Lights Publishing. (chapter 9, pp. 1-12)
Hunt, Sarah, and Cindy Holmes. (2015). "Everyday Decolonization: Living a Decolonizing Queer Politics." Journal of Lesbian Studies 9(2): 154-172.
Lugones, Maria. (2010). “Toward a Decolonial Feminism”. Hypatia 25(4):742-759.
Decolonizing the Classroom: Local and Global Realities
Daifallah, Yasmeen. (2019). The Politics of Decolonial Interpretation: Tradition and Method in Contemporary Arab Thought. American Political Science Review 113(3):810–23.
R. A. D'Souza and M., Pal. (2018). Encountering the post-colonial in academia. Journal Organizational Ethnography 7(3):361-372.
Sathorar, H., and D., Geduld. (2018). Towards Decolonising Teacher Education: Re-imagining the Relationship between Theory and Praxis". South African Journal of Education 38(4):1-13.
Freire, Paulo. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Chapter 1: pp. 43-60).
M., Thembeka and L., Dreyer. (2018). Establishing Inclusive Schools: Teachers Perceptions of Inclusive Education Teams. South African Journal of Education 38(4):1-11.
Sathorar, H., and D., Geduld. (2018). Towards Decolonising Teacher Education: Re-imagining the Relationship between Theory and Praxis". South African Journal of Education 38(4):1-13.
De Lissovoy, Noah. (2010). Decolonial Pedagogy and the Ethics of the Global. Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics Education 31(3):279–293.
Ermine, Willie. (2007). The Ethical Space of Engagement. Indigenous Law Journal 6(1):193-203.
Stein, Sharon. (2016). Rethinking the Ethics of Internationalization: Five Challenges for Higher Education. UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 12(2):1–25.
Futurity: The Prospect of Decolonial Futures
Davis, Angela. (2012). The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues. San Francisco: City Lights Publishing. (chapter 12, pp 1-8).
Land, Clare. (2015). Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (chapter 1 pp. 2-9 & chapter 4 pp. 1-15).
Kluttz, Jenalee. (2019). Unsettling Allyship, Unlearning and Learning Towards Decolonising Solidarity. Studies in the Education of Adults 52(1):1-19.
Sium, Amam. (2012). Towards the Tangible Unknown: Decolonization and the Indigenous Future. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society 1(1):1-13.
Mendieta, Eduardo. (2020). Toward a Decolonial Feminist Imaginary: Decolonizing Futurity. Critical Philosophy of Race, 8(1-2):237-264.