Language of emancipation colonizes even while claiming to decolonize.

Evidence

An eco-justice pedagogy that addresses these issues will have a more immediate influence on the quality of daily life than a pedagogy that denounces “white terror” and teaches the language of emancipation, which colonizes even as it pretends to decolonize. — C. A. Bowers, Educating for Eco-Justice and Community, 701

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Along-the-Archival-Grain theme that anti-colonial frameworks can reproduce the colonizer’s own assumptions — good cross-course connection. — connects to: Colonization promised emancipation paired with removal of Black people from America — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 129

Broader Connections

• Colonization promised emancipation paired with removal of Black people from America #exemplifies (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 129