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“Under this process of scientific colonialism, he who controls the ideas literally takes control. The process of controlling the production and legitimacy of knowledge is, in fact, very systematic. Professor Hilliard (1976) has identified five tactics of falsification which we suggest are associated with the establishment of conceptual incarceration and guarantee scientific colonialism. The tactics are found in the treatment of information. Hilliard notes that historically information relevant to African contributions to civilization was either
(1) destroyed
(2) distorted
(3) suppressed
(4) falsified
(5) intentionally confused.
These, in effect, are the tactics of scientific colonialism. Under the process of scientific colonialism information and ideas are rigidly controlled by the tactics of destruction, distortion, fabrication, suppression and confusion. In the methodology of scientific colonialism each of the abovementioned methods would have a predictable ‘tactic-of-choice’. For the method of unsophisticated falsification, for example, the ‘tactic-of-choice’ would be ‘destruction’ and ‘suppression’ of information. With integrated modificationism, the ‘tactic-of-choice’ would be ‘distortion’. The ‘tactic-of-choice’ with the conceptually incarcerated method would be ‘confusion’.Wade W. Nobles and Lawford L. Goddard
“Understanding the Black Family: A Guide for Scholarship and Research”
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