Erasing precolonial women’s contributions perpetuates racist historiography

Evidence

In summary, major arguments in this study are that Africa has made significant contributions to civilization and development. Existing silences over contributions made by women in the social, political and economic fronts in pre-colonial Africa serve only to perpetuate Darwin’s racist sentiments, hence the need for African women scholars to reclaim this lost evidence. The analysis deliberately places engagement with gender politics at the centre as a strategic tool to contribute to democratic transformation in a region where feminism clearly has a pivotal role to play. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 943

Categorization

• SEED: The claim that feminist archival recovery is itself a counter-hegemonic praxis against colonial-era racism could anchor an essay on decolonizing historiography.
• XREF: connects to: Feminist scholarship on race often fails to interrogate the writer’s own location — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 161; Documenting precolonial African kingdoms freed educated Blacks from internalized historical racism — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 778; White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 416 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Feminist scholarship on race often fails to interrogate the writer’s own location — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 161; Documenting precolonial African kingdoms freed educated Blacks from internalized historical racism — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 778; White women’s linguistic erasure of black women served their own political interests — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 416 (+8 more)