Decolonizing academia : poverty, oppression and pain / Clelia O. Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez, Clelia O., author.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in higher education.

Minorities in higher education.

Education, Higher--Social aspects.

Education, Higher.

Minority women college teachers.

Genre:

novels.

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 138 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Halifax, Nova Scotia ; Winnipeg, Manitoba : Fernwood Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

"Refreshing and radical, Decolonizing Academia speaks to those who have been taught to doubt themselves because of the politics of censorship, violence and silence that sustain the Ivory Tower. Clelia O. Rodríguez illustrates how academia is a racialized structure that erases the voices of people of colour, particularly women, and their potential. She offers readers a gleam of hope through the voice of an inquisitorial thinker and methods of decolonial expression: poetry, art and reflections that encompass more than theory."-- Provided by publisher.

"Decolonizing Academia is the voice of a Latinx academic mother passing on the torch to her Latinx offspring to use as a tool to not only survive academic spaces but also dismantle systems of oppression. Rodríguez presents ideas that many have tried to appropriate, ignore, erase and consume in the name of "research." Her work is a survival guide for people of colour entering academia."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Unlearning : First layer : trespassing

Second layer : rawness

Third layer : reading "time"

Fourth layer : shame

Fifth layer : what about decolonization?

Sixth layer : networking

Seventh layer : who's counting?

Eighth who's hiring?

Ninth layer : why are you here?

Tenth layer : tragedy

Eleventh layer : the #Shithole syllabus

Twelfth layer : intellectual masturbation

What/who kills : (Count, s l o w l y)

S l o w e r

Advice 101 : know your audience

Or

Metaphorical layers

Impossible missionary positionalities for women of colour

The politics of "()" : Listening matters

Salt

UNapologetic letters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Other Format:

Rodríguez, Clelia O., 1975- Decolonizing academia.

ISBN:

9781773630748

1773630741

OCLC:

1049911159

Publisher Number:

15668694