Full Description
Spanning 35 years, this reader includes 21 seminal works by the scholar, theorist, and activist Antonia Darder. Darder's ongoing contribution to the field of education is vast and she has helped to shape the fields of critical education, Freirean pedagogy, the critical study of race/racism, political economy, Latino studies/education, and biculturalism. Her work is informed by a deep personal history of struggle and scholarly rigor and is centred on social justice and economic democracy.
The reader is divided into five sections which group together Darder's work around the following topics:
- decolonizing interpretive methodology
- race/racism/racialization
- Latino studies
- reinventing Freire
- culture & power
Each section includes an introduction written by the editors and the volume also includes a preface and introduction from the editors, an epilogue written by Darder, a foreword written by Gilda L. Ochoa and an afterword by João M. Paraskeva.
Contents
Preface, Antonia Darder (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
Foreword (TBD)
Introduction
Part I: Decolonizing Interpretive Methodology
1. Part Introduction
2. The Link Between Culture and Power
3. Decolonizing Interpretive Research
4. Institutional Research as a Tool for Cultural Democracy
5. The Establishment of Liberatory Alliances with People of Color
Part II: Race/Racism/Racialization
6. After Race: An Introduction
7. Shattering the "Race Lens": Toward a Critical Theory of Racism
8. What's so Critical about Critical Race Theory?
9. Racialized Metropolis: Theorizing Asian American and Latino Identities and Ethnicities in
Southern California, with ChorSwang Ngin (California State University, USA)
Part III: Latino (Latinx) Studies
10. Latinos and Society: Culture, Politics, and Class - An Introduction
11. Latinos and Education: An Introduction
12. Mapping Latino studies: Critical Reflections on Class & Social Theory
13. Radicalizing the Immigrant Debate in the US: A Call for Open Borders and Global Human Rights
Part IV: Reinventing Freire
14. Liberation: Our Historical Task
15. Teaching as an Act of Love
16. Education in the Age of "Globalization" & "Difference"
17. Restoring our Humanity: The Dialectics of Revolutionary Practice
Part V: Culture and Power
18. The Problem with Traditional American Pedagogy and Practice
19. A Critical Theory of Cultural Democracy
20. The Politics of Biculturalism: Culture and Difference in The Formation of Warriors for
Gringostroika and the New Metizas
21. Creating the Condition for a Cultural Democracy in the Classroom
Afterword, Rodolfo D. Torres (University of California, USA)
References
Index
