The academy and public policy

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In an article entitled The Impact of Colonialism on Policy and Knowledge Production in International Relations Jasmine Gani and Jenna Marshall state that academia and intellectuals have helped to supply, shape, and justify colonial and racist policies. They also state that based on enlightenment political thought, the erasure of slave history had occurred where scholars have confronted the erasure of racism and have argued that the erasure forecloses greater debate about the scrutiny of racism within the disciplines of mainstream and critical theories.  It is now that these topics of theory and racism and policy-making have become quite the hottest topic of discursive practice and debate, which have been going on in the academy for decades.  It has been a debate over topics surrounding postcolonial philosophy and European Enlightenment thinking.   This discussion has been going on since the 1960s.  It is good for the general public to become aware of what kinds of debates have been going on within the academy that directly affect how public policy is being written today. The only harm of racism at this point would be developed within the reactions of people in their debate with one another about how these policies should be written. It is an existential fact that there is a debate over these matters, and in a free country, the debate should continue to happen.  The rights of the subaltern people in this world should be heard about, and the reaction to these intellectual and academic affairs should come to light in the public square. The origins of the material for such debates need to be recognized. The understanding of postcolonial philosophy, in some scholarship, has been seen as a lesser force than Marxist theory.  Whatever position one takes, the concern with postcolonial thought should not be forgotten or shirked off. 

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