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The movement to “decolonize the curriculum” has become something of an orthodoxy in Western universities. Its proponents argue that the academy has been shaped by Eurocentric assumptions, and that non-Western knowledge traditions deserve greater prominence. Yet the movement’s loudest advocates display a curious blind spot: they appear wholly impervious to the remarkable, and largely unthanked, role that Western scholars played in recovering, preserving, and transmitting much of the very non-Western knowledge they now wish to celebrate. (more…)