Colonialism and the Academy

Abstract

“My education has beaten and battered me.” So begins a fellowship essay by a young Latina I came to know during her undergraduate years.¹ Margarita reveals a deep pain shared by many underrepresented students in colleges and universities across the United States. She speaks to our nation’s “history [which] has left us with deep relational wounds, separating people who have endured forms of colonial attack…from European descendant peoples.”²