Below are some possible starting points for developing your understanding of questions and issues to do with colonialism. They include both videos and texts.
(1) As a first step, you could start by watching one or two of the videos below, and making some key points, and reading one or moreof the texts on this page, and making notes.
(2) Then, after explaining and discussing your notes in class, you could decide what you want to understand more deeply about colonialism.
(3) Your next step could then be to start doing your own searches for information and sources (text, video, muti-media, and so on).
** Please feel free to email me if you need any help or advice about searching for information. **
Videos
Al Jazeera (2019). How does colonialism shape the world we live in? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOdLzM4lz-Y
BigThink (2012). Colonialism's Impact on Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhnG8JbBegA
Deutsche Welle (2020). Colonialism in Africa: Yesterday, today and tomorrow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzxWd_F7bDU
Gouda, F. (2010). How the colonial past influences the way we see the world today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7CyPpnZ7PU
PBS (February 16, 2016). Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools (56 minutes 43 seconds). https://www.pbs.org/video/unspoken-americas-native-american-boarding-schools-oobt1r/
Yale University (2012). Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwsj9AZnaaE
Texts
BBC (4 September 2019). Reviving Colombia's 'language of resistance'. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49471598
Deutsche Welle (19 February 2022). Opinion: Africa's indigenous languages vs. colonial tongues. https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-africas-indigenous-languages-vs-colonial-tongues/a-56616166
Ou Lv 呂欧 (4 December 4 2017). 「旧満州」日本語教育と植民地言語政策に関する一考察 [Investigation of Manchuria Japanese Education and Colonial Language Policy]. Bulletin of Hokuriku University, 44. https://www.hokuriku-u.ac.jp/about/campus/libraryDATA/kiyo44/comm3.pdf
Rademaker, L. (21 January 2019). The great Australian silencing: The elimination of Aboriginal languages and the legacy of colonisation. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/the-elimination-of-aboriginal-languages-and-the-legacy-of-colon/10731474
Stone, J-P. (27 January 2019). Beneath The Snowy Tundra: The Marginalization Of The Sami In Scandinavia and Russia. The Organization for World Peace. https://theowp.org/reports/beneath-the-snowy-tundra-the-marginalization-of-the-sami-in-scandinavia-and-russia/
Sundaravelu, A. (20 September 2020). Colonisation robbed me of my mother tongue – and my identity. Metro. https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/20/colonisation-took-my-mother-tongue-away-13206775/