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Jairo I. Fúnez is a professor at Texas Tech University. Asst. Professor—For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring...dignity.

36 books
Book Cover for: Orientalism, Edward W. Said

Orientalism

Edward W. Said
Jairo I. Fúnez-FloresJairo I. Fúnez-Flores

Why do academics use the term coloniality in their writing without citing those who have advanced this concept since the early 1990s? I feel like by now it’s intentional. It’s like writing about orientalism or racial capitalism and not citing Edward Said and Cedric Robinson.

Paperback, 1979

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Planetary Longings, Mary Louise Pratt

Planetary Longings

Mary Louise Pratt
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@mariamdurrani I'm reading Planetary Longings by Mary Louise Pratt and it has a great chapter on this very topic.

Paperback, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: L: Notebook for Women, Girls and School, Pink Floral, Michael David

L: Notebook for Women, Girls and School, Pink Floral

Michael David
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Evelynn Hammonds, Michael Herzfeld, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne, Jay H. Jasanoff, Maya Jasanoff, Sheila Jasanoff, Biodun Jeyifo, David Kennedy, Duncan Kennedy, Randall Kennedy, Jamaica Kincaid,

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Book Cover for: The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon
Jairo I. Fúnez-FloresJairo I. Fúnez-Flores

Fanon's Wretched of the Earth is always a great companion.

Paperback, 2021

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Book Cover for: Literacy: Reading the Word and the World, Paulo Freire

Literacy: Reading the Word and the World

Paulo Freire
Jairo I. Fúnez-FloresJairo I. Fúnez-Flores

Here too, the pioneering intuition of Paulo Freire was right, who proposed pedagogy "of" the oppressed and not "for" the oppressed; it was the person...the community itself that should become the subject of its own consciousness-raising literacy,

Hardcover, 2016

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Book Cover for: Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance, D. Soyini Madison

Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance

D. Soyini Madison
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@AngeleChristin @MeztliYoalli There's a brilliant chapter on these topics by Soyini Madison's Critical Ethnography.

Paperback, 2019

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Book Cover for: Intersectionality, Patricia Hill Collins

Intersectionality

Patricia Hill Collins
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“When I teach intersectionality…I teach it in a way that pushes students to think outside of the walls of the university…If we want intersectionality to keep its praxis orientation, it’s social change orientation, we cannot engage it only as an analytic…" @Sirma_Bilge

Hardcover, 2020

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Book Cover for: Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon
Jairo I. Fúnez-FloresJairo I. Fúnez-Flores

Just finished re-reading Black Skin, White Masks. This book teaches us that racism's governing fiction is social, structural, & historical. As Fanon expressed so clearly, it's the negatively racialized who are "exploited, enslaved, despised by a COLONIALIST, CAPITALIST SOCIETY"

Paperback, 2008

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Book Cover for: Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times, Lewis R. Gordon

Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times

Lewis R. Gordon
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Coloniality of knowledge and disciplinary decadence, as Lewis Gordon points out, "turns disciplines away from reality in their quest for controlled outcomes" because reality is "resistant to complete control." https://t.co/R0ypccTwVf

Paperback, 2007

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Book Cover for: Manifiesto: Tres Textos Clasicos Para Cambiar El Mundo, Ernesto Che Guevara

Manifiesto: Tres Textos Clasicos Para Cambiar El Mundo

Ernesto Che Guevara
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CRT scholars are actually in a cult that worships Karl Marx's lost manuscript, The Critical Race Manifesto. https://t.co/HiHyZIAM0K

Paperback, 2006

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