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. . . colonialism is not simply content to impose its rule upon the present and the future of a dominated country. Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverse logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts it, disfigures and destroys it.
—Franz Fanon, The Wretched
My people will sleep for 100 years, and when they awake, it will be the artists who give them back their spirit.
—Louis Riel, Michif Revolutionary
In order to uncover the perverse logic—that Fanon pointed out—underlying the philosophical conundrum of modernity/coloniality and the political and economic structure of imperialism/colonialism, we must consider how to decolonize the ‘mind’ and the ‘imaginary’—that is, knowledge and being.
—Walter Mignolo, Delinking—The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the
Grammar of De-coloniality
