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'''Sylvia Wynter''' (Holguín, Cuba, 11 May 1928) is a Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist. Her work combines insights from the natural sciences, the humanities, art, and anti-colonial struggles in order to unsettle what she refers to as the "overrepresentation of Man." Black studies, economics, history, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, literary analysis, film analysis, and philosophy are some of the fields she draws on in her scholarly work.
* ''Do Not Call Us Negros: How Multicultural Textbooks Perpetuate Racism'', 1992.
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* ''[[Media:Wynter Sylvia The_Hills_of_Hebron_1962.pdf|The Hills of Hebron]]'', London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Novel.
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* ''[[Media:Wynter Sylvia Do Not Call Us Negros How Multicultural Textbooks Perpetuate Racism 1992.pdf|Do Not Call Us Negros: How 'Multicultural' Textbooks Perpetuate Racism]]'', intro. & comm. Joyce King, San Francisco: Aspire, 1992, 126 pp.
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* [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/search/authors/sylvia%20wynter Works on Memory of the World]
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* [https://aaaaarg.fail/maker/53106e71334fe07269202565 ARG]
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* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22392 Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis]'', ed. Katherine McKittrick, Duke University Press, 2015, xiii+290 pp.
 
* ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22392 Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human As Praxis]'', ed. Katherine McKittrick, Duke University Press, 2015, xiii+290 pp.
 
* Karishma Desai, Brenda Nyandiko Sanya, [https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/09540253.2016.1221893 "Towards Decolonial Praxis: Reconfiguring the Human and the Curriculum"], ''Gender and Education'' 28:6, 2016, pp 710-724.
 
* Karishma Desai, Brenda Nyandiko Sanya, [https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/09540253.2016.1221893 "Towards Decolonial Praxis: Reconfiguring the Human and the Curriculum"], ''Gender and Education'' 28:6, 2016, pp 710-724.
* [http://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/search/authors/sylvia%20wynter Works on Memory of the World]
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* [https://aaaaarg.fail/maker/53106e71334fe07269202565 ARG]
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Wynter Wikipedia]
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Wynter Wikipedia]

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Sylvia Wynter (Holguín, Cuba, 11 May 1928) is a Jamaican novelist, dramatist, critic, philosopher, and essayist. Her work combines insights from the natural sciences, the humanities, art, and anti-colonial struggles in order to unsettle what she refers to as the "overrepresentation of Man." Black studies, economics, history, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, literary analysis, film analysis, and philosophy are some of the fields she draws on in her scholarly work.

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