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In this essay, I show how critical projects of decoloniality might help build a new humanity. I focus on the intellectual output of Chielozona Eze, arguing that, as public-service scholarship, it bears witness to the shifts occurring in contemporary decolonial thought and thus exemplifies the role the humanities can play to midwife an inclusive and empathetic global democratic culture so central to decolonial studies. My analysis aims to demonstrate how the humanities can be a tool in meeting civic needs and interests and thereby help rehabilitate modern society., The critic should weigh not only the formal merits of literary works but also their moral content, whether they offer the semblance of good character and the undermining of evil [...]

Using a case study approach, the authors of this article strive to explore the challenges and adverse impact that faculty of color often experience due to structural inequities, institutional racism, and the lack of cultural awareness on the part of White institutions. Furthermore, the purpose of this article is to demonstrate that even when there is a significant number of faculty members of color, stereotyping and discrimination still occur and often impact the promotion, retention, and experiences of newly recruited faculty of color. Our narratives as African American female faculty are presented as a collective case study in this article. An analysis of the narratives, strategies for retention and recruitment, and validation of the collective experience through un-silencing the voices are discussed, Introduction In the 1990s, many predominantly White institutions of higher education (PWI) put forth deliberate efforts to increase the number of faculty of color in the academy (Harvey & Anderson, [...]

Abstract One way to develop critical and culturally reflective leaders is to wed critical theory with textual material rich in complex cultural meaning and ambiguity. In this essay, the author [...]

The term public sphere is discussed with reference to the work of Jurgen Habermas, specifically to his seminal text Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. A challenge of the cultural, social, and political historians to the Habermasian perspective on the nexus between history and theory of the public sphere is presented.

Edward Said, Benita Parry and Abdul JanMohamed writing alone and with David Lloyd have all claimed to represent continuations of the work of Frantz Fanon in the area of postcolonial discourse. Fanon proposed a dualistic relationship between colonizer and colonized, where the positive/negative aspects were inverted based on perspective. Said, Parry and JanMohamed approach Fanon's theories from different directions: national identity, messianism and minority identity respectively.

This paper reviews the development over the last 15 years of a broadening critical trend in the field of medical anthropology by: (1) examining shortcomings of conventional medical anthropology that led to interest in critical alternatives; (2) examining historical and occupational factors that tend to conservative the subdiscipline; (3) reviewing the body of literature produced thus far by its adherents; and (4) suggesting directions for future work.