After spending this past year working on my senior project, I am increasingly intrigued by the legacies of colonial empires, and the British in India specifically. I think we (meaning in the United States and internationally) need to begin approaching education with the responsibility that we should have learned from colonial methods of dominance. Colonial education still exists largely in India, and my education in Milwaukee Public Schools never even taught me about colonialism aside from the colonies that became the United States.
I am interested in thinking more about the relationships that emerge from systems of dominance, both internationally and domestically in the US. I look forward to reading the texts that I have not had the time to read during college to explore both of my interests: post-colonial social structures (specifically in their interaction with dominant and generally predominantly white nations that once acted as colonizers) and American race relations. I want to continue in one or both of these directions in graduate studies, but first I plan on living real life for a while to try things out and see what inspires me.