School · 1869 CE–2008 CE
Anti-colonial and decolonial thought
Anti-colonial thinkers exposed empire as a material and psychological order, connecting struggles over land and sovereignty to race, culture, language, embodiment, and human freedom.
Shared questions
- How does colonial power remake subjects, and what forms of action can create a decolonized world?
Internal disagreements
- The roles of cultural recovery, national consciousness, class struggle, violence, and universal humanism in liberation.
Key texts
- Discourse on Colonialism · 1950 — Césaire's polemic reads European fascism as colonial violence returning to its point of origin.
- The Wretched of the Earth · 1961 — Fanon's last book was dictated as he was dying and has been read as both an analysis and a call to arms.