Jun 18, 2020
3 min read
Un-Othering and Decolonizing the Colonizers
One of the wellsprings of decolonization philosophy — the grandmother if you will — is Jamaican literary artist and philosopher Sylvia Wynter. Dr. Wynter’s analysis of racism in relation to colonization is elegant and profound. It has also shifted the understanding of dominant culture forever.
Dr. Wynter asserts that there is a two-step process in escaping the hypnosis of racism and…
