Preliminary Material / Njoki Wane , Arlo Kempf and Marlon Simmons -- Introduction / Njoki Wane and Marlon Simmons -- African Indigenous Feminist Thought / Njoki Wane -- Circulating Western Notions / John Catungal -- The Race to Modernity / Marlon Simmons -- Remembering the 1947 Partition of India Through the Voices of Second Generation Punjabi Women / Mandeep Kaur Mucina -- Moving Beyond Neo-Colonialism to Ubuntu Governance / Devi Mucina -- Being Part of the Cultural Chain / Yumiko Kawano -- North African Knowledges and the Western Classroom / Arlo Kempf -- What Might We Learn if We Silence the Colonial Voice? / Donna Outerbridge -- A Conversation About Conversations / Imara Ajani Rolston -- The Politics of African Development / Njoki Wane -- Conclusion / Arlo Kempf -- Notes on Contributors / Njoki Wane , Arlo Kempf and Marlon Simmons.

The advent and implementation of European colonialism have disrupted innumerable epistemological geographies around the globe. Countless cultural ways of knowing and local educational practices have in some way been displaced and dislocated within the universalizing project of the Euro-Colonial Empire. This book revisits the colonial relations of culture and education, questions various embedded imperial procedures and extricates the strategic offerings of local ways of knowing which resisted colonial imposition. The contributors of this collection are concerned with the ways in which colonial education forms the governing edict for local peoples. In The Politics of Cultural Knowledge, the authors offer an alternative reading of conventional discussions of culture and what counts as knowledge concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, identity, and difference in the context of the Diaspora. In The Politics of Cultural Knowledge, Wane, Kempf and Simmons have put together a much-needed reader that could achieve the critical reconstructions for the timely re-voice-ing of anti-colonial and Indigenous knowledge systems that introspectively and deeply mediate the lives of people. It is a comprehensive, multi-locational, well-structured work that should represent an important milestone in harnessing the long-awaited inclusive epistemological platforms that must teach, empower and inspire those who seek different cultural ways of knowing.

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