Engaging Currere Toward Decolonization

<p>This timely volume uniquely illustrates how currere can be applied to the process of decolonizing subjectivity. Centered around the experiences of one black woman from the third world the text details the theoretical underpinnings of Currere towards Decolonizing (CTD) and walks the reader through the autobiographical analysis involved in dismantling cognitive colonization.</p><p>Conceived as a four-part autobiographical process of <i>remembering</i> <i>identifying</i> <i>imagining</i> and <i>decolonizing</i> the method of CTD is demonstrated as a means of recognizing and reflecting on how the colonial project has been internalized and of gradually dismantling the psychological affective and material impact of colonization. Using both theoretical and experiential standpoints and intersecting with notions of anti-blackness linguicide and Africana womanhood the volume moves curriculum theory urgently towards anti-colonial mechanisms that disrupt the colonizing process.</p><p>This text will benefit researchers academics and educators in higher education with an interest in curriculum studies post-colonialism and Black studies more broadly. Those specifically interested in interpersonal psychoanalysis as well as gender and third world studies will also benefit from this book.</p>