The late Anibal Quijano wrote in 1992 that colonialism consists of the systematic repression of all ways of knowing and modes of producing knowledge, which includes the production of “perspectives, images and systems of images, symbols, modes of signification, over the resources, patterns, and instruments of formalized and objectivised expression, intellectual or visual” (p.
Thank you. Found this extremely helpful given our current conditions in Southern California and overall national context.