I'm an undergraduate History major beginning to start thinking about my senior thesis major and one thing that I am particularly interested in is anti-colonial movements and how those rejections of the colonial are imagined/conceptualized. I've done some reading of Frantz Fanon writing about the effects of colonialism on the colonized individual and would like other reading similar to that but also works that more explicitly imagine the decolonized future, both in terms of the state, the nation, and the individual. I am particularly interested in ideas like Cuba's New Man and the transformation of the colonial subject after 'liberation.' If any of you have any readings that could introduce me more to this topic, both in terms of primary readings, historical analyses, and works of theory, I would be very thankful.
Just to clarify, are interested only in works on the post-colonial subject (e.g. Cuba), or are you also interested in how the colonial subject was constructed (e.g. Fanon)? Post-colonial literature is absolutely a massive body of work, so as specific as you can get would really help.
I unfortunately can't help very much with the first topic (on historical, decolonized subjects). I can however provide some basic reading on post-colonial theory in history and archaeology. The focus of these works is on "decolonizing" history and archaeology, with an eye towards how decolonizing social sciences can help decolonize individuals (since their colonization was heavily abetted by the kind of ideological structure Fanon, for example, talks about, and which academic disciplines helped create).
The first article (by Spivak) is mandatory reading if we are talking about post-colonial studies. It's a very challenging read and would absolutely benefit from multiple readings. The very quick synopsis is that, to answer the question posed in the article's title, Spivak argues that the subaltern cannot "speak" (i.e. participate in the production of academic knowledge) because they lose their subaltern status by participating in that knowledge production. It is a more complex argument than that, but that hopefully at least helps to guide you through a quite challenging read.
The next set of readings, by Prakash and O'Hanlon and Washbrook, is a very interesting back-and-forth between the authors about the direction specifically of a post-colonial history as a discipline.
The last set of readings by Silliman, Trigger, and Lightfoot together are a pretty good overview of how archaeology in the U.S. has grappled with decolonization and becoming a post-colonial discipline (largely in reference to Native Americans as the colonized subject of archaeology). Other areas have grappled with this issue in archaeology (particularly Canada and Australia), but I think the argument has been most fully formed within U.S. archaeology so I give that as a starting point. I'm also most familiar with that literature, so I can recommend it more fully. There is a particularly extensive literature on the same subject within Australian archaeology you could also delve into.
For both the archaeology and history readings I've put the readings in chronology order. At least for the Prakash/O'Hanlon-Washbrook debate, reading them chronologically is important since each paper responds to the prior papers. For the archaeological papers, since a decade (or more) separates each one, it's useful to start with the earliest and see how the idea has developed over time and resulted in the most recent of those (the 2005 Silliman paper).
I hope these recommendations are along the lines of what you were looking for, but I'm happy to provide more material if it is both in my power and you clarify exactly what kind of topic you are interested in.
Suggested Readings:
Post-Colonial History
Prakash, Gyan. 1990. Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Perspectives from Indian Historiography. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 32:383-408.
O’Hanlon, Rosalind and David Westbrook. 1992. After Orientalism: Culture, Criticism and Politics in the Third World. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 34:141-167.
Prakash, Gyan. 1992. Can the ‘Subaltern’ Ride? A Reply to O'Hanlon and Washbrook. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 34:168-184.
Post-Colonial Archaeology
Trigger, Bruce G. 1980. Archaeology and the Image of the Native American. American Antiquity, 45(4): 662-76.
Lightfoot, Kent G. 1995. Culture Contact Studies: Redefining the Relationship Between Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology. American Antiquity, 60(2):99-217.
Silliman, Stephen W. 2005. Culture Contact or Colonialism?: Challenges in the Archaeology of Native North America. American Antiquity, 70(1):55-74.