This is a general resource list to help in your decolonisation endeavors. To view more course specific resource lists, see Fine Art, Art History, Museum Studies and Cultural Studies.
If you have any interesting sources yourself and you’d like to include them in any of these lists, email us at boxcheckerz@gmail.com and I’ll see if its cool enough to include.
Articles to Read
Decolonise for What?
- The real meaning of Rhodes Must Fall
Only a fifth of UK universities say they are ‘decolonising’ curriculum - The Free Black University is here to decolonise education for good
- Yvette Mutumba on Why Decolonizing Institutions ‘Has to Hurt’
What even is the Attainment Gap?
- Universities’ shame – unpicking the black attainment gap
- The ‘Race’ Attainment Gap
- Black Students Awarded 1st Class Degrees Four Times Less Than White Students in 2018
- BLACK, ASIAN AND MINORITY ETHNIC STUDENT ATTAINMENT AT UK UNIVERSITIES: CASE STUDIES
Why it gotta be so White?
- It’s official: These are the 50 whitest unis in the UK
- ‘Monolithically white places’: academics on racism in universities
- Whiteness Characterises higher education institutions – so why are we surprised about racism?
Where are we now?
- Investigation: What changes have British universities actually made since BLM?
- 5 Anti-Racist Practices White Scholars Can Adopt Today – #BLM Guest Post
Videos to Watch
- To watch what inspired a large part of this project – Complain creatively. | The Guerrilla Girls | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
- Pedagogy of the Decolonizing | Quetzala Carson | TEDxUAlberta
- Decolonising the Curriculum, Ted Talk with Melz Owusu
- TEDxLSE Online Event: Why Is My Uni So White? – You can see the transcript of this conversation here.
- Sara Ahmed: Complaint as Diversity Work
Podcasts For Your Ears
Other people doing other cool stuff
Decolonisation efforts at other Uni’s that came before us
- Decolonise Sussex https://www.sussexstudent.com/campaigns/decolonize-education/
- Decolonise QMUL https://decoloniseqmul.wordpress.com/
- Decolonise UKC https://decoloniseukc.org/
- Decolonise KCL https://www.kclsu.org/organisation/17807/
- Decolonise Sociology (Cambridge) https://t.co/nESiDzbVCV?amp=1
- Decolonise Soas https://t.co/FjWGtqI75T?amp=1
- Decolonise UoM https://twitter.com/decoloniseuom?lang=en
- Goldsmiths Liberate our Library https://www.gold.ac.uk/library/about/liberate-our-library/
- Goldsmiths Anti-Racism Action https://twitter.com/goldantiracism?lang=en
- RMF Oxford https://rmfoxford.wordpress.com/
- Diversifying and Decolonising Economics https://d-econ.org/
Independent Decolonisation Efforts Outside the Institution
- The Free Black University
- Leeds Uni Defund to Decolonise https://medium.com/@leedsunidefundtodecolonise/open-letter-defund-to-decolonise-leeds-university-cda09a1109a2
- Decolonize ALL The Things
- Decolonise this Place
- RACEZINE Resource links
Social Media to Follow
Please follow to help stop the serious spread of whitefication of school curriculums in your own life
Great insta accounts to decolonise your own social media feed
- ukisnotinnocent
- academiaisracist
- decoloniseuok
- yorkshireresists
- defundtodecoloniseleedsuni
- abolitionistfutures
- stopdiscriminasian
- theracialjusticenetwork
- unclescornershop
- thebrownhijabi
