The first time I learned about neo-colonialism from a global perspective was in a masters class about post colonial literature at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2011. I was 22 and I was blown away reading Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and more great writers.
Before that I had only been exposed to American-centric perspectives on race and racism. I had taken a course during my undergrad at Cal Poly Pomona called something like Women and Race in literature in 2010. I do not think it was called Race and Gender, if you understand, because back then people still weren’t talking about gender identity as multitudinous. I make this point to say that some of the resources and materials I learned these initial anti-racist ideas from might be out of date.