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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levitz, Tamara

Titel

Decolonizing the Society for American Music

Ist Teil von

• Society for American Music Bulletin, 2017, Vol.43 (3), p.1-13

Ort / Verlag

Pittsburgh: Society for American Music

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nelson Maldonado-Torres clarifies that whereas colonization and decolonization designate "specific empirical episodes of socio-historical and geopolitical conditions" in the past, "coloniality" refers to "long-standing patterns of power that emerged as a result of colonialism, but that define culture, labor, intersubjective relations, and knowledge production well beyond the strict limits of colonial administrations. Deeply cognizant of the connections between knowledge production, capitalism, and race, they strategized about how to stop tuition fee increases; become self-reliant and end neocolonial dependency; transform the physical space of university campuses; negotiate heart-wrenching racial and intergenerational conflict and power struggles on the means and ends of their protest; and decolonize the curriculum through new methodologies, modes of teaching, pedagogies, and content. Jess Auerbach at the African Leadership University in Mauritius, describes a plan there to decolonize the social sciences by offering students open source texts, using other languages than English, establishing a 1:1 ratio in student exchange, assigning non-textual sources of history, culture, and belief, giving students agency as producers, and following the highest ethical standards. The triadic structure of settler-native-slave and imperial/settler colonial US context explains why the social justice goals and critical approaches of various white, nonwhite, immigrant, postcolonial, and oppressed people may actually further settler colonialism, rather than combat it, and may oppose, mask, or delay the project of decolonization.9 Tuck and Yang identify six "moves to innocence" or ways in which settlers-and scholars in the academy-use metaphors of decolonization to reconcile their guilt and complicity, and assure their future as