The Postcolonial Ghetto: Seeing Her Shape and His Hand

De/colonizing, (Post)(Anti)Colonial, and Indigenous Education, Studies, and Theories

“…As Rhee and Subedi clarify, Indigenous scholars have long expressed dissatisfaction by the postcolonial project, because there is nothing post-where post is meant to signal after-about the omnipresence of coloniality in Indigenous life (wa Thiong'o, Ngo, Smith, Miller and Wright 2009;Grande 2004; see also Paperson 2010). Using Patel's term, postcolonial studies have not always deftly demonstrated answerability to Indigenous peoples and Indigenous lands, especially within settler colonial contexts.…”

A disrupting darkness: youth resistance as racial wisdom

“…Spivak (1985, 84) critiques the idea that post-industrial societies now experience a negation of labor divisions, reminding us that, "a negation of the negation is continually produced by the shifting lines of the international division of labor." If we consider the Global South within the Global North, then we see lines drawn 810 L. Paperson throughout the wealthy San Francisco Bay Area to cordon off the dark presence of the Third World within (Paperson 2010). This final section turns to the lines of labor faced by the young women, 10 years later, and relies principally upon interviews with Nina, who was now a mother, working as a teacher aide in a private school in Oakland.…”

Afterword: Will Human Rights Education Be Decolonizing?

“…UNIA granted use of a large Victorian house in West Oakland (Paperson, 2010) to our small group of educational refugees. We were about one-quarter of the original founding class, and one-twelfth the total EOC student body.…”