Page Count: 208
Average Rating: 4.24
Series: Standalone
Important and really helpful book. Great overview of colonization, with some actual suggestions on how to decolonize texts. The author explains the problems of these colonized texts and how they distort knowledge, but does this without blaming those who wrote them (because sometimes they were genuinely written to help preserve knowledge), and without completely disavowing what's in those texts. Instead, we can use them in a way to help revitalize the culture in a more meaningful way to our own benefit. The texts need to be examined and changed because they cannot be used as-is (e.g., degrading comments need to be removed and abbreviated instructions need to be expanded upon). And we need to recognize our own biases and they ways in which we've been colonized if we are working toward revitalization.
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