Decolonial School Resources
Start Here
Decolonization is not a metaphor
Decolonizing Native American Design
Why Can’t the US Decolonize its Design Education?
Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression, and Pain - Clelia O. Rodriguez
100 ways to Indigenize and decolonize academic programs and courses
Other Resources
Decolonizing Reader (Open document to share resources)
Books
Design for the Pluriverse - Arturo Escobar
The Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent - Mahmoud Keshavarz
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication - Ruben Pater
Movies/Documentaries/Videos
Love & Debt Documentary
The Danger of a Single Story - Chimamanda Adichie
Decolonizing the University - Ramon Grosfoguel
Articles
Troy Richardson, Curriculum Inquiry, Vol. 41, Issue 3, June 2011, pp 332-349
"The Work of Design in the Age of Cultural Simulation, or, Decoloniality as Empty Signifier in Design"
Ahmed Ansari, Medium, January 4, 2017
Aura Bogado, YES!, October 24, 2017
"Decolonizing & Intersectionality"
Ece Canli and Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Intersectional Perspectives on Design, Politics and Power, School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, November 14-15, 2016
Specific Authors
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED talk
Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/Le Frontera: the New Mestiza
James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers”
Joshua Block’s “Educate to Liberate: Build an Anti-Racist Classroom”
Noam Chomsky
Lisa Delpit’s “No Kinda Sense” (from The Skin that We Speak) and Other People’s Children
Robin DiAngelo (esp. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism)
Paolo Freire
bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress
Kyoko Kishimoto’s “Decolonizing Teaching” written with Darlene St. Clair)
Audre Lorde
Wayne Ross
Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”
Sara Ahmed’s On Being Included
Additional Resources
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