Definitions for 2/22

The term colonial is used to define the effects in an area and time that has been colonized or is currently being colonized. The mindset of America today can be described as colonial because it features practices and social structures that uphold an oppressive settler colonial mindset. Anticolonial is used to describe the rejection of a colonial mindset, colonial practices and there are more ways to apply this that I am not completely sure. Anticolonial stands against all that has upheld traditional mindsets that have continued to oppressed marginalized groups in the form of a power dynamic. Decolonial is a unique term because I feel as if I have a better understanding of the verb decolonizing instead of decolonial. In my best effort I believe that decolonial is a way to challenge practices, mindsets, and procedures with a critical eye. A decolonial point of view is aware of intersecting oppression such as race, class, and gender and how practices contribute to non-inclusive views. I associate the term Postcolonial in the field of feminism. Postcolonial feminism is one that came about similarly to the way black feminism separated from white feminism for the group not acknowledging the lived experience of women of color. Postcolonial feminism differs from western feminism which in the past has attempted to universalize women’s oppression. Postcolonial feminism rejects a euro-centric mindset by utilizing a decolonial point of view. Im not sure if Postcolonial is a more simple broad term that defines a time after colonization.

 

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