Bhambra, Gurminder K. 'Decolonizing Critical Theory?: Epistemological Justice, Progress, Reparations.' Critical times (Berkeley, Calif.) 4.1 (2021). Web. (Sections 5 and 6)

'In this context, the past and its problems are better approached through an understanding of reparations, whereby those who were previously dominant (and those who continue to benefit from structures of domination) understand and engage with the injustice of that domination and how it structures the present. The injustices of the past cannot be repaired in the sense that sufering could be undone or the past restored. Nor is an argument for reparations an argument for compensation for individual losses. It is an argument about current inequities in distribution that are placed beyond the purview of justice by virtue of being represented as merely historical. The current system of inequality of disadvantage and advantage requires a form of redistribution that recognizes the unjustified advantages deriving from colonial appropriation.' (83)

--> You cannot ask the oppressed to assimilate with and/or conform to impress the oppressors - you would be missing the point entirely

--> Thinking about the myth of the model minority and respectability politics

'Reparation, then, is epistemological insofar as it requires a transformation of understanding and practical insofar as it requires a redistribution of resources to address the inequalities inherited from the past.' (84)

--> You cannot just change language, you have to change thought and action

'Learning would require a commitment to the further transformation of the material conditions that produced the injustice in the first place.” (85)

--> Again, you have to abolish systematic injustices and the systems that exist / exist due to these injustices to act out justice

'The injustices that disfigure the world that we share in common can only be addressed through acknowledging the histories that have produced them as well as the historiographies that have obscured them.' (85)

--> What is important is what we do not learn/speak of/etc

Jones, H. 'Theory, History Context.;' The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory. Routledge, 2013. 3-11. Web.

'Language is not a transparent medium through which ideas can pass between minds without alteration. Rather, as almost all of the essays and entries in this book acknowledge, it is a set of conventions that inuence or even determine the sorts of ideas and experiences people are able to have. Language is cultural (some thinkers even claim it is the essence of culture), and therefore open to criticism and change.' (viii)

--> Thinking about academic language bullshit and accessability to knowldege

'All of the multiple readings to which a work, text, artefact or event are open will be based on a theory: a set of beliefs about what it means, what meaning itself is, how communication takes place and how the world works. Each of us in our day-to-day interactions with others and the world carries such, often implicit, beliefs around in our heads. The point of studying theory is to make them explicit, and to question them.' (ix)

-->Humans are inherently political and carry their own conciuos or unconscious biases !