How to Use decolonize in a Sentence

decolonize

verb

• Q: What has the process of decolonizing come to look like for you in practice?
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 June 2017
• To decolonize means to return and respect the earth and see yourself as part of it.
  — Amanda Alcantara, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
• Miller said the goal was to begin to decolonize the historically White area of study.
  — Rachel Chason, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• Has written about poetry being dead as if no other stanzas have been structured to decolonize the page in the past 100 years.
  — Mahogany L. Browne, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2023
• Then maybe plant that, because that’s kind of decolonizing your garden.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• That means that in order to decolonize affirmation, there must be a sense of homecoming.
  — Shayna Conde, Allure, 28 Feb. 2022
• Marie is also now working to transform and decolonize the mental health industry at large.
  — Ashley Simpson, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 June 2021
• To wit, a recent course program aimed to decolonize art history.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2022
• Erica Jasmine Moon is a fitness instructor on the path to further decolonize the wellness space.
  — Michella Oré, Glamour, 17 Nov. 2020
• A: Decolonizing my mind has been a continual process of rethinking the values that guide my actions.
  — Lisa Deaderick, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 June 2017
• And yet, trying to decolonize — to free a country from the dominating influence of a colonizing power — is an empire of work in its own right.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2022
• Claiming my brownness has given me language to name some of my experiences both within Latinidad and whiteness, and helped me to decolonize my ideas of beauty.
  — Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, refinery29.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• Per a statement, staff have removed a total of 120 human remains from display, moving them to storage as part of a museum-wide effort to decolonize the Pitt Rivers’ collections.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Sep. 2020
• The Third World nationalists who came to power in decolonizing nations in the 1960s had only recently formed a stratum of colonial rule: lawyers, doctors, poets, and soldiers.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The call to decolonize science, as in the case of other disciplines such as literature, can encourage us to rethink the dominant image that scientific knowledge is the work of white men.
  — Rohan Deb Roy, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
• More initiatives of this kind are essential if calls to decolonize knowledge are to become more than comforting blandishments.
  — Phil Clark, Quartz, 30 May 2022
• Arriving amid a growing push to decolonize American and European museums, these campaigns ask a crucial question: Who gets to claim these artifacts as their own?
  — Lauren Keith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2022
• How can journalists help decolonize outdoor recreation history in a deep and significant way?
  — Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• From supporting local farms to shopping for traditional ingredients, there are plenty of ways to decolonize your diet.
  — Maya Richard-Craven, Men's Health, 22 Nov. 2022
• The effort to ‘decolonize light’ is representative of a growing trend: subjecting hard sciences to the woke piety previously afflicting only the humanities.
  — Andrew Follett, National Review, 20 Dec. 2022
• Vietnam braided opposition to communism, itself a tenet of Cold War conflict, with democratic state-building in a decolonizing region.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2020
• Other projects have explored the displacing impact of gentrification on afro hairdressers in Peckham, South London, and how to decolonize museum collections through gathering more diverse stories of hair.
  — CNN, 16 Sep. 2022
• My work is an attempt to decolonize art history and challenge preconceived ideas about Indigenous people and our sexuality, and to create paintings that explore the missing narratives that were never depicted in the art history of this continent.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
• The problem, then, was how to draft a constitution that reflected this exclusionary conception of national belonging but also, in a decolonizing world, appeared to make the country a procedural democracy.
  — Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2023
• In the second part, which takes place 100 years later, an art student causes a small uproar while trying to decolonize her university through a performance that draws parallels between historical and contemporary colonial exploitation.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022
• Anahuacalmecac school leaders view the institution’s role as decolonizing education by teaching Indigenous students to embrace their heritage.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• When coupled with proactive efforts to decolonize psychotherapy, intentional investment in diversity could help to satisfy clients’ growing desire for cultural competence in all its forms.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024