6 Shedding the Colonial Skin and Digging Deep as Decolonial Praxis
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Faye Rosas Blanch
Abstract
Indigenous Australian academics as sovereign beings routinely enter confronting and dangerous settler-colonizing spaces, where a racialized lens keeps our bodies out of the ‘norm’ of academic teaching and learning. We must bring Indigenous knowledges into spaces where ‘race’ as a concept is not named. How do we do our work, as sovereign bodies in damaged landscapes, when blood is spilt? We are more than the abject figures represented in the racial grammar of the settler-colonial state. Engaging seminal critical Indigenous, critical race and decolonial scholarship, this chapter ‘digs deeper’ into a critical anti-racist framework to consider narratives carried into teaching spaces by First Nations academics as ‘embodied’ literacies. I argue that all literacies about us (the racializing assembles of discourse, language, text, film and policies) are ‘raced’, and proffer an ‘unbecoming’ through ‘shedding of colonial skin’ exemplified in creative anti-racist and decolonization performances of the Unbound Collective Sovereign Sisters.
Abstract
Indigenous Australian academics as sovereign beings routinely enter confronting and dangerous settler-colonizing spaces, where a racialized lens keeps our bodies out of the ‘norm’ of academic teaching and learning. We must bring Indigenous knowledges into spaces where ‘race’ as a concept is not named. How do we do our work, as sovereign bodies in damaged landscapes, when blood is spilt? We are more than the abject figures represented in the racial grammar of the settler-colonial state. Engaging seminal critical Indigenous, critical race and decolonial scholarship, this chapter ‘digs deeper’ into a critical anti-racist framework to consider narratives carried into teaching spaces by First Nations academics as ‘embodied’ literacies. I argue that all literacies about us (the racializing assembles of discourse, language, text, film and policies) are ‘raced’, and proffer an ‘unbecoming’ through ‘shedding of colonial skin’ exemplified in creative anti-racist and decolonization performances of the Unbound Collective Sovereign Sisters.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Series Editors’ Preface vii
- List of Figures and Tables ix
- Notes on Contributors x
- Foreword xvii
- Acknowledgements xxi
- Introduction: Articulating a Critical Racial and Decolonial Liberatory Imperative for Our Times 1
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Going beyond ‘Decolonize the Curriculum’
- Being Woke to Anti-Intellectualism: Indigenous Resistance and Futures 13
- Decolonizing Australian Universities: Why Embedding Indigenous Content in the Curriculum Fails That Task 32
- Let’s Get Critical: Thinking with and beyond the ‘Dead White Men’ of Social Theory 49
- (De)constituting Settler Subjects: A Retrospective Critical Race-Decolonizing Account 62
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Being in the Classroom
- Shedding the Colonial Skin and Digging Deep as Decolonial Praxis 79
- Racially Literate Teacher Education: (Im)possibilities for Disrupting the Racial Silence 93
- In Conversation with Helena Liu: Redeeming Leadership – a Project of Critical Hope 111
- The Provocateur as Decolonial Praxis 123
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Doing Race in the Disciplines
- Decolonizing the Curriculum in the Colonial Debtscape 137
- Race-ing the Law 152
- Assembling Decolonial Anti-Racist Praxis from the Margins: Reflections from Critical Community Psychology 164
- Unravelling the Model Minority Myth and Breaking the Racial Silence: A Collaborative Critical Auto-Ethnography 178
- Counter-Storytelling as Critical Praxis 190
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Building Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies beyond the Academy
- Incantation: Insurgent Texts as Decolonial Feminist Praxis 205
- Race at Work within Social Policy 227
- ‘The Sole Source of Truth’: Harnessing the Power of the Spoken Word through Indigenous Community Radio 246
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Resistance, Solidarity, Survival
- Death Can Be Clarifying: Considering the Forces That Move Us 261
- In Conversation with Yassir Morsi: Slow Ontology as Resistance 276
- Teaching Race, Conceptualizing Solidarity 290
- In Conversation with Alana Lentin: Racial Literacy – an Act of Solidarity 305
- Teacher/Decolonizer 317
- Index 322
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Series Editors’ Preface vii
- List of Figures and Tables ix
- Notes on Contributors x
- Foreword xvii
- Acknowledgements xxi
- Introduction: Articulating a Critical Racial and Decolonial Liberatory Imperative for Our Times 1
-
Going beyond ‘Decolonize the Curriculum’
- Being Woke to Anti-Intellectualism: Indigenous Resistance and Futures 13
- Decolonizing Australian Universities: Why Embedding Indigenous Content in the Curriculum Fails That Task 32
- Let’s Get Critical: Thinking with and beyond the ‘Dead White Men’ of Social Theory 49
- (De)constituting Settler Subjects: A Retrospective Critical Race-Decolonizing Account 62
-
Being in the Classroom
- Shedding the Colonial Skin and Digging Deep as Decolonial Praxis 79
- Racially Literate Teacher Education: (Im)possibilities for Disrupting the Racial Silence 93
- In Conversation with Helena Liu: Redeeming Leadership – a Project of Critical Hope 111
- The Provocateur as Decolonial Praxis 123
-
Doing Race in the Disciplines
- Decolonizing the Curriculum in the Colonial Debtscape 137
- Race-ing the Law 152
- Assembling Decolonial Anti-Racist Praxis from the Margins: Reflections from Critical Community Psychology 164
- Unravelling the Model Minority Myth and Breaking the Racial Silence: A Collaborative Critical Auto-Ethnography 178
- Counter-Storytelling as Critical Praxis 190
-
Building Critical Racial and Decolonial Literacies beyond the Academy
- Incantation: Insurgent Texts as Decolonial Feminist Praxis 205
- Race at Work within Social Policy 227
- ‘The Sole Source of Truth’: Harnessing the Power of the Spoken Word through Indigenous Community Radio 246
-
Resistance, Solidarity, Survival
- Death Can Be Clarifying: Considering the Forces That Move Us 261
- In Conversation with Yassir Morsi: Slow Ontology as Resistance 276
- Teaching Race, Conceptualizing Solidarity 290
- In Conversation with Alana Lentin: Racial Literacy – an Act of Solidarity 305
- Teacher/Decolonizer 317
- Index 322
