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Why teach about Decolonization
It is not a specific objective/standard in the Georgia Standards. There is wiggle room to make time for a
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Teaching it tells the story of resistance and gives agency to colonized people.
Defining Decolonization
The process of imperial governments leaving colonized territories and at which point those territories begin governing themselves.
Opposing Definitions
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a process by which legally dependent territories obtained their constitutional independence and entered the world stage of international relations as sovereign states.
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the reversal of the process of European imperial expansion with all its political, economic, social, cultural and linguistic consequences.
How Decolonization work is organized
Colonized peoples thirst for Independence
World War II making colonial powers look less invulnerable
Focus on anti-colonialism in in international arenas such as the U.N.
Additional Resources
Todd Shepard (2014) Voices of Decolonization
Martin Shipway Decolonization and its impact
Chafer, Tony, The End of Empire in French West Africa: France’s Successful Decolonization?
Nwaubani, Ebere, The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950-1960
Chamberlain, Murial Evelyn, Decolonization: The Fall of the European Empires, Historical Association Studies
Darwin, John, Britain and Decolonization: The Retreat from Empire in the Post-War World