Reclaiming ‘race’ in postcolonialism: A personal reflection on the politics of the racial experience

‘As a person of colour, I can say that it has been difficult to process these incidences of intellectual racism, where it is argued that an experience of racial violence that people of colour know all too well, must first be validated by the pen of someone’s much older and whiter hand,and that the racialized authors I take pride in are never a true product of their own subjective experiences of alienation but are instead products of their white education.’