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This chapter seeks to establish the scope and tone of the book. In doing so, it offers a critical reflection on social privilege, specifically, on how a sincere engagement with decolonial theory requires an accounting of one’s own privilege.
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Here, I follow Rancière’s conceptualization of the police in his Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy as “an order of bodies that defines the allocation of ways of doing, ways of being, and ways of saying … it is an order of the visible and the sayable that sees that sees that a particular activity is visible and another is not, that this speech is understood as discourse an another as noise” (1999, 29).
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Rebollo Gil, G. (2018). As Far as Manifestos Go. In: Writing Puerto Rico. New Caribbean Studies. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92976-7_3
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