Decolonization Pillar

Welcome to our Decolonization Pillar

Decolonization means “resisting and actively unlearning the dangerous and harmful legacy of colonization, particularly the racist ideas that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) people are inferior to White Europeans.” It necessitates interrogating and dismantling “power structures that carry legacies of racism, imperialism, and colonialism.” But more commonly, it calls on faculty to address a series of curricular, pedagogical, and evaluative challenges.

Decolonization can be defined as the "meaningful, deliberate & active resistance to forces of colonialism that perpetuate the subjugation and/or exploitation of our minds, bodies, & lands. Decolonization's primary purpose is to overturn the colonial structure(s) & realize Indigenous liberation."

C³ Lenses: A Decolonization Approach 

Sources:

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/decolonizing-academy

https://forum.maddiesfund.org/discussion/decolonization-moving-beyond-dei

Russell, D. (2024). C³ Lenses: A Decolonization Approach. William Paterson University. 

Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a program of complete disorder. But it cannot come as a result of magical practices, nor of a natural shock, nor of a friendly understanding. Decolonization, as we know, is a historical process: that is to say it cannot be understood, it cannot become intelligible nor clear to itself except in the exact measure that we can discern the movements which give it historical form and content.

-Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, 1963, p. 36