Hello everybody and welcome back to Red Menace.

On today's episode we are finally getting to the text decolonization is not a metaphor

by Eve Tuck and Kay Wayne Yang and this is a work that feeds really well into our last

deep dive into the text by Paulo Freierre, pedagogy of the oppressed and this has some

critiques of that text sort of siding with Fanon over Freierre on some particular issues

about really around decolonization and what it actually means and how some of the things

that Freierre can do can sort of obscure some important categories etc but also goes

well beyond that into sort of analysis of how decolonization is used often in ways that

can even actively impede or prevent real material decolonization so this is a really fun text

it is attached to things that we've covered before from Fanon and Freierre and beyond

so yeah we're going to get into it today Allison before we jump into it is there anything

that you wanted to say about the text up front?

Yeah I mean so I want to frame just a little bit perhaps this is a challenging text I think no

matter what sort of political perspective you come at this text from it's challenging something

that you believe so my kind of approach to this text is really I think to wrestle with it

right to not treat it as something that we're going to take everything it says for granted as true

but something that we're going to use to like hopefully I think spark a discussion between ourselves

and hopefully spark a broader discussion that uses this text as a jumping off point.

There's a lot of really strong claims in this text that I think really challenge us to clarify

what decolonization means and to be more clear about that and I think that my goal at least

turning to this text isn't to say like this text has all the answers that we need

but this text poses a challenge that all communists should face and should begin to work through

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