Decolonize intellect ❤️❤️❤️ #Repost @rachel.cargle ・・・ The institution of academia — made up of a large percentage of PWI’s (Predominantly White Institutions)— presents knowledge to us in a way that suggests white people are the knowers and everything and everyone else is to be known, explored, studied and scrutinized under their white gaze and white perspective. That the knowledge produced by white researchers and intellectuals holds more weight in the cannon even moreso than the peoples they are studying (most often people of color and other “exotic” communities around the world). • Nah. I’m off that. *cancels subscription to white centered academia* Whiteness is not the default of existence. Whiteness is not the root of knowledge. Whiteness is not the only type of minds from which critical development can come. • ✊🏾Decolonize intellect. • Tenure people of color Cite people of color Publish people of color Acknowledge field progressions from people of color Learn from people of color Honor the intellect of people of color • Thank you @linguafrancanyc for the gorgeous sweater as I continue in this work! • #theivyleague #pwi #hbcu #yale #harvard #princeton #brown #columbia #ohiostate #ucla #university #wakeforest #collegelife #bsu #blackstudents #anthrpology #graduation #upenn #duke #nyu #dartmouth #stanford #mit #cornell #johnshopkins #purdue #vanderbilt https://www.instagram.com/p/BucN8ecFgdj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r8vb00uqpx5j
