What Might We Learn if We Silence the Colonial Voice?

Abstract

In this chapter, I discuss the importance of being responsible and accountable for the work we produce. I engage with the ways in which colonialism works through the educational system. I identify the importance of thinking through an anti-colonial discursive framework in order to understand the denial and erasure of black identity, by critically interpreting the colonial relations that have been, and continue to be, oppressive to specific groups of people. In addition, this chapter utilizes Indigenous knowledges which ground the discussion by way of holistic forms of living and learning that is non-linear and offer strategies for cultural resistance. Moreover, I recall Smith’s (1999) point of not signing off once the research is completed. To do so, would be committing the same atrocity as our Western counterparts, instead I am suggesting we must adapt the principle of reciprocity and feedback.