My partner and I are both first-generation immigrants but from different colonized regions, and we're struggling with how to raise our daughter because we have completely different ideas about which cultural practices to preserve and which colonial impositions to reject. We keep having the same fight about language, religion, and even what foods to cook, and I'm realizing we've never actually talked about what decolonization means to each of us personally.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are discovering that shared experiences of colonization don't automatically create shared visions of cultural recovery.
“Where Are You with Postcolonial identity and decolonization?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.