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Week 8 Readings - Coggle Diagram
Week 8 Readings
Decentralizing the 'White Gaze' of development by Robtel Neajai Pailey
In ignoring the factor of race being embedded in these developmental systems it upholds racial hierarchies
centers the white gaze
"how can we treat [psychiatric] patients if the institution [of psychiatry] itself is sick?" Franz Fanon
we can't go forward with discussions of development without addressing the inherent factor of the white gaze
"The act of enforcing gracelessness in... discourse is itself a racial act"- Toni MORRISON
Pailey's personal Experience
Agrivation with her peers upgrading their titles and mindset of position when in her eyes they were more the unqualified
Seeing these titles of 'advisor' thrown around made it obvious that it was putting white western ideals on a pedastal
"did not expect to have my blackness repelled so forcefully in my own continent"
Saw a complete lack of discussions of race in academic discourse
Steps to de-centre the white gaze In development
Understand it
The white gaze measure the political, socio-economic, and cultural processes of pot*
"white is always right, west is best ideology
Subversion of the white gaze
Black Lives matter movement
Being called to include all African lives
Talks about the 'How To Write About Africa' reading <3