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"A colonized mind will fight harder to protect the master's image than to recover its own dignity."

Postcolonial and decolonial theory are not, in an official capacity, interchangeable. Postcolonial theory analyses the cultural and intellectual aftermath of colonialism. Decolonial theory assumes that colonialism never ended given that its structures continue organising modern life. However, there is significant overlap between the two types of theory, and their theorists have significantly influenced one another over the decades. Here are 10 works which are a quick introduction to this area of political thought and world philosophy.

Frantz Fanon – Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth

Edward Said – Orientalism

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – "Can the Subaltern Speak?"

Walter Mignolo – The Darker Side of Western Modernity

Anibal Quijano – “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America”

Enrique Dussel – Philosophy of Liberation

Aimé Césaire – "Discourse on Colonialism"

Homi K. Bhabha – The Location of Culture

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The Harlequin Beetle, lower right, with its remarkably long front legs, and two smaller species. Insects Abroad. 1883.