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Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse: Cultural Critique or Academic Colonialism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Walter D. Mignolo*
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Duke University
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Commentary and Debate
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Copyright © 1993 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

For insights incorporated in revising my original version of this comment, I am grateful to Fernando Coronil and the numerous student participants in “Beyond Occidentalism: Rethinking How the West Was Born,” a seminar that Coronil and I cotaught at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1992. This essay is dedicated to the memory of Josephat Kubayanda.

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