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All history has a political agenda. “Non-partisan” itself serves to further the legitimacy of Western academia, itself born in service to colonial and neo-colon
by charlescearl 4y ago
All history has a political agenda. “Non-partisan” itself serves to further the legitimacy of Western academia, itself born in service to colonial and neo-colonial projects.
The work of Sylvia Wynter, Ngugi wa Thiong o, Edward Said, Walter Rodney among many others are probably good jumping off points.
- kspacewalk2 4y agoNah. That's just the story the partisans like to construct to make the task of straw-manning competing narratives of history easier. Everyone has some combination of biases, but there are plenty of historians who don't have a political agenda, and they tend to be the good ones, the ones who spend time researching and synthesizing an informed and informative viewpoint, rather than trying to push their ideology though the back door, treating the reader like an idiot who doesn't notice. The latter is a hallmark of both left wing and right wing politicisation of history, equally.