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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.