Resources by Region

Africa

  • Creary, N.M. (Ed.). (2012). African intellectuals and decolonization. Ohio University Press.
  • Foster. E.A. (2019). African Catholic: Decolonization and the transformation of the church. Harvard University Press.
  • Hill, R.A. & Keller, E.J. (Eds.). (2010). Trustee for the human community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the decolonization of Africa. Ohio University Press.
  • Monaville, P. (2022). Students of the world: Global 1968 and decolonization in the Congo. Duke University Press.
  • Moskowitz, K. (2019). Seeing like a citizen: Decolonization, development, and the making of Kenya, 1945–1980. Ohio University Press.
  • Mucina, D.D. (2019). Ubuntu relational love: Decolonizing Black masculinities. University of Manitoba Press.
  • Okeke-Agulu, C. (2015). Postcolonial modernism: Art and decolonization in twentieth-century Nigeria. Duke University Press.
  • Pearson, J.L. (2018). The colonial politics of global health: France and the United Nations in postwar Africa. Harvard University Press.
  • Schmidt, E. (2007). Cold War and decolonization in Guinea, 1946–1958. Ohio University Press.
  • Smith, A.W.M. & Jeppesen, C. (Eds.). (2017). Britain, France and the decolonization of Africa: Future imperfect? University College London.
  • Tamale, A. (2020). Decolonization and Afro-feminism. Daraja Press.
  • White, L. (2015). Unpopular sovereignty: Rhodesian independence and African decolonization. University of Chicago Press.
  • Wilder, G. (2015). Freedom time: Negritude, decolonization, and the future of the world. Duke University Press.

Asia

  • Clarke, D. (2002). Hong Kong art: Culture and decolonization. Duke University Press.
  • Said, E. (1979). Orientalism. Vintage.

Latin America and Caribbean

  • Alonso Bejarano, C., López Juárez, L., Mijangos Garcia, M.A., & Goldstein, D.M. (2019). Decolonizing ethnography: Undocumented immigrants and new directions in social science. Duke University Press.
  • Ari, W. (2014). Earth politics: Religion, decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous intellectuals. Duke University Press.
  • Cespedes, K. L. (2007). Ay mama Ines!: A decolonial feminist critique of Cuban nationalism, tourism, and sex work (Order No. 3306085). Available from GenderWatch. (304900255).
  • Laura, R. C. (2021). Extractivism and territorial dispossession in rural Colombia: A decolonial commitment to Campesinas’ politics of place. Feminist Review, 128(1), 44-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01417789211015269
  • Luis-Brown, D. (2008). Waves of decolonization: Discourses of race and hemispheric citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States. Duke University Press.
  • Peña, D., Calvo, L., McFarland, P., & Valle, G.R. (Eds.). (2017). Mexican-origin foods, foodways, and social movements: Decolonial perspectives. University of Arkansas Press.
  • Pérez, L.E. (2018). Eros ideologies: Writings on art, spirituality, and the decolonial. Duke University Press.
  • Rivera Cusicanqui, S. (2020). Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: On decolonising practices and discourses. Polity.
  • Schiwy, F. (2009). Indianizing film: Decolonization, the Andes, and the question of technology. Rutgers University Press.
  • Sealey, K.F. (2020). Creolizing the nation. Northwestern University Press.
  • Velez, E. D., & Tuana, N. (2020). Toward decolonial feminisms: Tracing the lineages of decolonial thinking through Latin American/Latinx feminist philosophy. Hypatia, 35(3), 366-372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2020.26

Oceania

  • Lumba, A.E.S. (2022). Monetary authorities: Capitalism and decolonization in the American colonial Philippines. Duke University Press.
  • Perez, C.S. (2022). Navigating CHamoru poetry: Indigeneity, aesthetics, and decolonization. University of Arizona Press.