A main aspect of my practice is my research. The field of decolonization is yet young and ripening. Through my short journey, these are a few of the resources that have informed my thoughts and work. If you have any to add, please do be sure to email me with recommendations.
- https://vimeo.com/161259012 – The Room of Silence, by Eloise Sherrid
- https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en – The Danger of a Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- On The Coloniality of Being, by Nelson Maldonado-Torres
- Orientalism, by Edward W. Said
- No White Saviors (@nowhitesaviors)
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, by Safiya Umoja Noble
- The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Manual for Visual Communication, by Ruben Pater
- W.E.B Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America, by Britt Rusert and Witney Battle-Baptiste
- How Important Is the Notion of the “Civilising Mission” to Our Understanding of British Imperialism Before 1939?, by Thanapat Pekanan in Interstate – Journal of International Affairs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN17Os8JAr8 – Pedagogy of the Decolonizing by Quetzala Carson
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ3_BnN8YmQ – (Haven’t been able to find a better link for this) by Soumya Polavarapu
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP9x1NnCWNY – Decolonization is for Everyone by Nikki Sanchez
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hbymt6a3zz044xF_LCqGfTmXJip3cetj5sHlxZEjtJ4/edit – Decolonizing Design Reader, started by Ramon Tejada
- Postcolonial Theory by Leela Gandhi
- Thinking Through Skin by Sarah Ahmed
- How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change by Allan deSouza
- https://vimeo.com/392174057 – Silas Munro on W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
- https://letterformarchive.org/events/w.e.b.-du-boiss-data-portraits-visualizing-black-america
- https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/why-role-models-matter-celebrating-women-of-color-in-design/
- https://www.decolonisingdesign.com/
- https://ahmedansari.com/
- https://scratchingthesurface.fm/post/187480812978/131-danah-abdulla
- https://www.dabdulla.com/
- https://ececanli.com/
- https://www.mahmoudkeshavarz.com/
- https://independent.academia.edu/MatthewKiem
- https://griffith.academia.edu/TristanSchultz
- https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfdc20/10/1?nav=tocList&
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEUyGrgqaAM – Decolonizing Design Lecture Series featuring Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall at the University of Minnesota College of Design
- https://depatriarchisedesign.com/
- https://www.aiga.org/diversity-equity-inclusion – AIGA’s Diversity & Inclusion Initiative
- https://www.waterstones.com/book/natives/akala/9781473661233 – Natives by Akala
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/18/british-by-afua-hirsch-review – Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch
- https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/nikesh-shukla/the-good-immigrant-usa/9780349700359/ – The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Sulyeman
- https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race-9781408870587/ – Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo Lodge
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b082x0h6 Black and British by David Olusogu
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bcy4kd – Whoever Heard of a Black Artist?
- https://darajapress.com/publication/finding-a-voice-asian-women-in-britain-2nd-edition – Finding a Voice: South Asian Women in Britain by Amrit Wilson
- https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/studio-b-unscripted/2019/11/studio-unscripted-priyamvada-gopal-george-poet-191128222312680.html : Al Jazeera (2019) Studio B, Unscripted: With Priyamvada Gopal and George the Poet
- https://iai.tv/video/how-to-decolonise-your-mind-kehinde-andrews-racism : Kehinde Andrews (2020) How to Decolonise your Mind: Improving conversations surrounding race. The Institute of Art and Ideas.
- https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/podcast-decolonising-the-university/ : Pluto Press (2018) Podcast: ‘Radicals in Conversation’ Decolonising the University.
- Ebook : Bhambra, G. K., Gebrial, D., Nisancioglu, K. (2018) Decolonising the University. London: Pluto Press.
- https://africaisacountry.atavist.com/decolonizing-knowledge-and-the-question-of-the-archive : Achille Mbembe (2015) Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive. Africa is a Country.
- https://gem.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Decolonizing-book-final-web.pdf : Smith, M. (2020) (ed) Decolonizing: the Curriculum, the Museum, and the Mind.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Jh5DGeq9g : Decolonise UoK (2020) Stories of (Un)belonging: inspirational talk by rapper, educator & activist Lowkey.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsKQtY15cdc : Decolonising Our Minds (2016) Decolonising SOAS: Student Perspectives.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dscx4h2l-Pk : NUS (2019) Why is my curriculum White?
- https://www.nus.org.uk/en/news/why-is-my-curriculum-white/ : Mariya Hussain (2015) Why is My Curriculum White? NUS National Union of Students.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7g66v4 : BBC Bitesize. Decolonising the curriculum.
- https://www.keele.ac.uk/equalitydiversity/equalityawards/raceequalitycharter/keeledecolonisingthecurriculumnetwork/#keele-manifesto-for-decolonising-the-curriculum : Keele Decolonising the Curriculum Network (2018) Keele Manifesto for Decolonising the Curriculum
- https://www.soas.ac.uk/blogs/study/decolonising-curriculum-whats-the-fuss/ : SOAS (2017) Decolonising the curriculum: what’s all the fuss about?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeKHOTDwZxU : Melz Owusu, Education Officer University of Leeds (2017) Decolonising the Curriculum.
- https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/what-does-it-mean-to-decolonize-design/ : Khandwala, A. (2019) What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design? AIGA Eye on Design.
- https://issuu.com/susanbubble/docs/final_decolonising_zine2.compressed : UAL Decolonising the Arts Curriculum: Perspectives on Higher Education (2018)
- https://issuu.com/theexchangeual/docs/final_v_online_zine2 : UAL Decolonising the Arts Curriculum Zine #2 (2019)
- https://issuu.com/rudyloewecomics/docs/surviving_art_school_as_artists_of_ : Collective Creativity (2016) Surviving Art School: An Artist of Colour Tool Kit.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7quY4cIxms : UAL (2020) Panel Discussion: Decolonising Arts and Culture?
- Fiona O’Rourke (2018) Race, Whiteness, and the National Curriculum in Art: Deconstructing Racialized Pedagogic Legacies in Postcolonial England. In: Amelia M. Kraehe, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, B. Stephen Carpenter II (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 205-225.
- https://www.been.media/storytelling-sovereignty : BEEN Media (2020) A Path (and Guide) Towards Storytelling Sovereignty.
- 10.1177/107780040200800103 : Solórzano, D. G. and Yosso, T. J. (2002) ‘Critical Race Methodology: Counter-Storytelling as an Analytical Framework for Education Research’, Qualitative Inquiry, 8(1), pp. 23–44. doi.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atfVUgyEIOI&feature=emb_title : Unfiltered with James O’Brien #32 (2018) Akala deconstructs race, class, and Britain’s modern myths.
- Paul Gilroy (2002) There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation. Routledge.
- Akala (2019) Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire. Two Roads.
- Angela Davis (1983) Women, Race & Class. Ballantine Books.
- hooks, b. (2015) Black looks: race and representation. Routledge. 2nd edition.
- Lorde, A. (2009). I am your sister: collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/colonialism (Links to an external site.) : Kohn, M. and Reddy, K. (2017) ‘Colonialism’. In Zalta, E. N. (ed) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- https://search-credoreference-com.ezproxy.kingston.ac.uk/content/entry/worldsocs/colonialism/0 : Colonialism. (2001). In J. M. Palmisano (ed.), World of sociology, Gale. Gale.
- https://search-credoreference-com.ezproxy.kingston.ac.uk/content/entry/wileyenglob/colonialism/0 : Ashcroft, B. (2012). Colonialism. In G. Ritzer, Blackwell encyclopedias in social sciences: the Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of globalization. Wiley.
- https://search-credoreference-com.ezproxy.kingston.ac.uk/content/entry/ibtaurisrt/imperialism/0 : Imperialism. (2014). In L. Pettiford (Ee.), A new A-Z of international relations theory. I.B. Tauris.
- https://www.e-ir.info/2017/01/21/interview-walter-mignolopart-2-key-concepts/ : Hoffmann, A. (2017) Interview – Walter Mignolo/Part 2: Key Concepts.
- Edward Said (1993) Culture and imperialism. London: Chatto & Windus.
- Gerald Horne (2018) The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean. Monthly Review Press.
- Eric Williams (1994) Capitalism & Slavery. University North Carolina.
- Walter Rodney (2012) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Dakar: Codesria
- Priyamvada Gopal (2020) Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent. London, New York: Verso.
- Anne McLintock (1995) Imperial Leather Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. New York; London: Routledge.
- Decolonising the Camera: Photography in Racial Time, by Mark Sealy
- The Argumentative Indian, by Amartya Sen
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