The students in “Decolonizing the Curriculum” collected the following resources for those interested in learning more. The original list is a snapshot in time. They envisioned it as a living document; if you have additions please drop them in the comment box below and we will gladly add them to the list. The list’s organization and some of the links are specific to the Grinnell context, but the material itself is not.
Introducing/explaining/theorizing/conceptualizing decolonizing:
- Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”
- Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Chapter: “Colonizing Knowledges”)
- bell hooks, “teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom”
- Cheryl I. Harris, “Whiteness as Property”
Generally relevant:
- Sourcing the Imagination: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Work as a Praxis of Decolonization
- Decolonizing teaching: a cross-curricular and collaborative model for teaching about race in the University (Report)
- Decolonizing The University: The Challenges and Possibilities of Inclusive Education
- The potential of critical race theory in decolonizing university curricula
- Moving Beyond Good Intentions: Indigenizing Higher Education in British Columbia Universities through Institutional Responsibility and Accountability
- The Search for Emerging Decolonizing Methodologies in Qualitative Research: Further Strategies for Liberatory and Democratic Inquiry
- Oomen, Barbara, and Sasja Tempelman (1999) ‘The Power of Definition’ In Y. Donders et al. (eds.) Law and Cultural Diversity, Sim-Special. Utrecht: Netherlands Institute of Human Rights, pp. 7-26.
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere
- Settler Colonialism as Structure: A Framework for Comparative Studies of U.S. Race and Gender Formation
- Ferguson – Classroom code-switching in post-colonial contexts Functions, attitudes and policies
- Dotson – Conceptualizing Epistemic Oppression
- Grinnell College Anti-Racism Doc
- A twitter thread by Melissa Daniels (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) on engaging in colonialist activity under the guise of “decolonising education”
- Making Meaning of “Decolonising”
- We need a decolonized, not a “diverse”, education – Zoé Samudzi, Harlot
- https://nationalhistorycenter.org/teaching-decolonization-resource-collection/ – includes a breakdown of resources by subject and topic
- Dismantling the Divide between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge -ANT, POL, SOC, REL, BIO, GDS (concentration), Environmental Studies (concentration), general application
Science division:
[Majors: Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, General Science, Math + Statistics, Physics, Psychology]
- Cultural humility versus cultural competence: A critical distinction in defining physician training outcomes in multicultural education – Medicine
- Beyond cultural competence: critical consciousness, social justice, and multicultural education
- Decolonizing Science Reading List (Medium)
- Decolonizing Technology Reading List
- As long as the Grass Grows: The indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonisation to standing rock – Dino Gilio-Whitaker
Social Studies division:
[Majors: Anthropology, Economics, Education, History, Political Science, Sociology]
- Towards decolonising teacher education: Reimagining the relationship between theory and praxis – EDU
- Embodying Difference: A Case for Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Approaches to Multiliteracies – SST
- Decolonizing Sociology – SOC
- Tools for Dismantling the Master’s House – ANT
- bell hooks, “teaching to transgress: education as the practice of freedom” – EDU
- The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education – Diana E. Hess and Paula McAvoy – POL
- A Red Deal (article (full text)- POL, HIS, SOC?
- Revolutionary Socialism is the Primary Political Ideology of The Red Nation– idk just read it
Humanities division:
[Majors: Art, Chinese and Japanese, Classics, English, French, German, Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Russian, Spanish, Theatre and Dance]
- The role of the Humanities in decolonising the academy – HUM
- Decolonising the Curriculum – ART + ARH
- Sourcing the Imagination: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Work as a Praxis of Decolonization – ENG
- Decolonizing the Study of Religion – REL
- Guest Editorial: Decolonizing English – ENG
- Design: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/what-does-it-mean-to-decolonize-design/
- Indigenous Peace-Making Versus the Liberal Peace– Peace and Conflict Studies
Study-Abroad:
Indigenous authors:
- As long as the Grass Grows: The indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonisation to standing rock – Dino Gilio-Whitaker
- A twitter thread by Melissa Daniels (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) on engaging in colonialist activity under the guise of “decolonising education”
