Neocolonial Mind Snatching: Sylvia Wynter and the Curriculum of "Man"

Autor/in	Rose, Ebony
Titel	Neocolonial Mind Snatching: Sylvia Wynter and the Curriculum of "Man"
Quelle	In: Curriculum Inquiry, 49 (2019) 1, S.25-43 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Rose, Ebony)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0362-6784
DOI	10.1080/03626784.2018.1554950
Schlagwörter	Humanism; Racial Bias; Foreign Policy; Western Civilization; Black Studies; Foreign Countries; Blacks; African Americans; Developing Nations; English Curriculum; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Humanismus; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Außenpolitik; Ausland; Black person; Schwarzer; Afroamerikaner; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; USA
Abstract	In her scholarship of the past five decades, Sylvia Wynter has woven a critique of education in Caribbean, European, African, and American societies. In addition, her work demonstrates how education globally structures a particular cultural, historical, and onto-epistemic anti-Black/anti-Indigenous worldview. In Wynter's most neglected piece of work "'Do Not Call Us Negros': How Multicultural Textbooks Perpetuate Racism" she weaponizes the second and third wave of her work to unpack and provide a fresh critique to the Black English debates that occurred in California in the 1990s. In this, she reframes debates about history curriculum and culture from a white conservative nativist one of "Man" (the status quo) to the alternative Black Studies Alterity Perspective rooted in the liminal Black socio-historical-cultural experiences. Continuing Wynter's layered excavation of education as the site of EuroAmerican cultural reproduction, I sketch out a different philosophical discourse to those grounded in capital and/or race debates of the social sciences; I present a philosophical European coming of age story of humanism as a distant stage in how the West became self-aware and created a consciousness of itself. In doing so, this Western European humanism, or what Wynter coins "Man" for short, embarked on a 500-year journey of colonialism/coloniality to plunder the gifts and talents of the minds and bodies of non-middle-class, non-European populations through a process/technique of what I coin "Neocolonial Mind Snatching." (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01