ASI 374 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Identity Politics, Eurocentrism, Intersectionality
21 Sep 2019
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High costs - harder for underrepresented groups to access, student debt. Profitability of majors vs. interest/passion for majors. Mental health crisis - toxic effect of educational experience. Epistemology - production and dissemination of knowledge. University itself generates problems by framing things in a misleading and inappropriate way (colonial/western) Looking at things from another perspective (ex. indigenous woman vs. columbus, the ships) Westernized university - doesn"t have to do with location - dominated by western thought. Knowledge coming predominantly from white males from 5 countries - uk, france, germany, italy, us. Recognizing the history of destroying other knowledges. Burning of libraries in andalusia, burning of. Silencing other voices - methods don"t even allow for other voices to be spoken. The modern, colonial, patriarchal, western-centric, christian- centric world system. Westernized university is just one component of this. Captures residue of what the colonizer leaves after they"re gone. Decoloniality - these changes can be undone.
