And We\u27re Rollin\u27 on a River...: The Poetics and Musical Dimensions of Breaking with Eurocentric Knowledge and Decolonizing Humanity

American society to date is wearing a mask. Although claiming to secure rights and liberites for all, American society hides under Eurocentrism\u27s guise which overvalorizes the white maleand undervalorizes minority bodies through reason, space, and place. Therefore, I assert there must be an epistemology which breaks from Eurocentricism. Utilizing poetics as a revalorizing logic, I will ask: How can poetics, as a legitimate source of knowledge, decolonize humanity? Keeping within the American scope, I employ critical race theory and theorists to demonstrate the dangers of employing hegemonic knowledge. I will then utilize poetry, literary devices, jazz, and blues to demonstrate resistance poetics\u27 revolutionary qualities. Ultimately, I assert poetics is a personal and approachable methods to reclaiming one\u27s own humanity and allows for poetic licensure to continue the decolonizing process. Politics is not a higher education venture, but rather an intimate and social experience