ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I explore the concept of humanity using the lenses of Blackness, Africana womanism, and Third Worldism. After offering a definition for each of these foundational constructs, I introduce the idea of decolonizing human subjectivity using school as an ideological state apparatus. I explain the phenomenon of decolonization occurring within Third space in order to proliferate self-understanding. I close the chapter with an assertion of the purpose of the research: to observe the states of loss and recovery from the psychological mutilation of colonization as occurring within one Black woman from the Third World.
