"Doctoral formation in the West continues to be deeply colonial, in the way we form would-be professors… And we teach people to live inside a fundamental imperialist position, in relationship to what it means to teach.”
@YaleDivSchool prof Willie Jennings {link/more below...}

Jennings wrote a groundbreaking book on Christian theology's role in the colonial production of "whiteness" in 2010. His new work diagnoses the "pedagogical imperialism" of theological studies and Western higher education itself. 2/

{quote above is from an interview in early 2020 w/ the OnScript podcast}:
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kc4td-cdf030?utm_campaign=au_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=au_share

Follow this thread for more from Jennings on the #imperialism of Western Christian theology and the racial imagination.