Literature on Decolonizing / Diversifying

There is broader discussion over which term is even appropriate to broach these discussions of examining the cannon.  Is it decolonizing if the systemic problems of colonization are not fully addressed?  Should it be reframed as Indigenizing the academy?  And, how do we address other issues of systemic racism and the centering of a European/White view point in the academy?  Here we provide some references that address these issues.

• Decolonizing research methodology must include undoing its dirty history 

• Do not ‘decolonize’ … If you are not decolonizing: progressive language and planning beyond a hollow academic rebranding

• How to include indigenous researchers and their knowledge

• Ntarangwi, M., 2010. Reversed Gaze: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology. University of Illinois Press.

• Harrison, F.V. (Ed.) 2011. Decolonizing anthropology: Moving further toward an anthropology for liberation. American Anthropological Association.

• Smith, L.T., 2013. Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. Zed Books Ltd., New York.

• Sillitoe, P., 2016. Indigenous Studies and Engaged Anthropology: The Collaborative Moment. Taylor & Francis.

• Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nisanciouglu (Eds). 2018. Decolonizing the University.  Pluto Press, New York, NY.

• Younging, G., 2018. Elements of Indigenous style: A guide for writing by and about Indigenous peoples. Brush Education, Canada.

• Athreya, S., 2019. “But You're Not a Real Minority”: The Marginalization of Asian Voices in Paleoanthropology. American Anthropologist 121(2):472-474.

• Bader, A.C., Malhi, R.S., 2019. How Subjectivity Strengthens Research: Developing an Integrative Approach to Investigating Human Diet in the Pacific Northwest Coast. American Anthropologist 121(2):476-478.

• Bolnick, D.A., Smith, R.W.A., Fuentes, A., 2019. How Academic Diversity Is Transforming Scientific Knowledge in Biological Anthropology. American Anthropologist 121(2):464-464.

• Clinton, C.K., Jackson, F.L.C., Historical overview, current research, and emerging bioethical guidelines in researching the New York African burial ground. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (early view).

• DiGangi, E.A., Bethard, J.D., Uncloaking a Lost Cause: Decolonizing ancestry estimation in the United States. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (early view).

• Fuentes, A., 2019. Identities, Experiences, and Beliefs: On Challenging Normativities in Biological Anthropology. American Anthropologist 121(2):467-469.

• Lans, Aja M.  2021  "Decolonize This Collection: Integrating Black Feminism and Art to Re‐Examine Human Skeletal Remains in Museums." Feminist Anthropology 2(1):130-142.

• Malhi, R.S., Antón, S.C., Fuentes, A., 2019. Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences—the IDEAS Program. American Anthropologist 121(2):478-479.

• McLean, S.-A., 2019. Social Problems, Structural Issues, and Unsettling Science. American Anthropologist 121(2):480-481.

• Nelson, R.G., 2019. Hypervisible and Human. American Anthropologist 121(2):469-470.

• Pérez, V.R., 2019. “Until the Brains Ran Out”: White Privilege, Physical Anthropology, and Coopted Narratives. American Anthropologist 121(2):470-472.

• Rutherford, J.N., 2019. Academic Descent with Intentional Modifications: A Reflection on Mentoring as Developmental Environment. American Anthropologist 121(2):482-483.

• Smith, R.W.A., Bolnick, D.A., 2019. Situating Science: Doing Biological Anthropology as a View from Somewhere. American Anthropologist 121(2):465-467.

• TallBear, K., 2019. Feminist, Queer, and Indigenous Thinking as an Antidote to Masculinist Objectivity and Binary Thinking in Biological Anthropology. American Anthropologist 121(2):494-496.

• Thayer, Z.M., 2019. Early Life Adversity and the Value of Diversity. American Anthropologist 121(2):484-485.

• Torres, J.B., 2019. A Parrot among John Crows: Diversity as Risk and Reward. American Anthropologist 121(2):474-476.

• Tuck, E., Yang, K.W., 2012. Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society 1(1).

• Watkins, R.J., “[This] system was not made for [you]:” A case for decolonial Scientia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (early view).