Decolonizing the Westernized University

Ramón Grosfoguel is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkley.Roberto D. Hernández is assistant professor of Chicana/o studies at San Diego State University. Ernesto Rosen Velásquez is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton.

• Introduction Ernesto Rosen Velásquez PART I: THE UNDERSIDE OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION1. The University at a Crossroads Boaventura de Sousa Santos PART II: DECOLONIZING THE WESTERNIZED UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE, THE U.S. AND LATIN AMERICA2. About Them, But Without Them: Race and Ethnic Studies Relations in Dutch Universities Kwame Nimako3. The Dilemmas of Ethnic Studies: In Between Liberal Multiculturalism, Identity Politics, Disciplinary Colonization, and Decolonial Epistemologies Ramón Grosfoguel4. The Crisis of the University in the Context of Neoapartheid: A View from Ethnic Studies Nelson Maldonado-Torres5. Dropouts as Delinkers from the Modern/Colonial World System Ernesto Rosen Velásquez6. Damnés Realities and Ontological Disobedience: Notes on the Coloniality of Reality in Higher Education in the Bolivian Andes and Beyond Anders Burman7. Delinking from Western Epistemology: En Route from University to Pluriversity via Interculturality Robert Am

This volume offers a highly insightful contribution to debates in critical pedagogy as well as to practices of decolonisation more generally.... [T]he volume unambiguously succeeds in conveying the urgency with which the Westernised university needs to be decolonised.