Full Description
This book draws from interviews conducted with prominent social justice educators and activist intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Molefi Asante, and Maxine Greene, to examine various forms of social inequities occurring in schools and society perpetrated by those in power. These educators and intellectuals use examples drawn from both personal and professional experiences and relevant literature to point out the manner in which multiple forms of oppression intersect, in both hidden and visible ways, to affect the lives of oppressed groups and disfranchised communities. This book seeks to shed light on various manifestations of social injustices aiming to inspire critical, radical thoughts for socio-political action leading to educational and social change.
Contents
Foreword: Love, Joy, and Justice
William Ayers
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section One
Chapter 1: Re-envisioning Social Justice and Democracy
Noam Chomsky Speaks
Chapter 2: Questioning the Essentializing Convenience of Generalizations
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Speaks
Chapter 3: Institutional Racism and White Hegemony
Adolfo Acuna Speaks
Chapter 4: Interrogating Class, Racism, and Inequality
Antonia Darder Speaks
Chapter 5: Re-envisioning the Life of Youth in the Age of Western Neo-liberalism
Henry Giroux Speaks
Chapter 6: Rethinking Literacy and Schooling in a Capitalist Society
James Gee Speaks
Section Two
Chapter 7: Rethinking Schooling in a Neoliberal Economy
Kevin Kumashiro Speaks
Chapter 8: Re-defining Blackness in the 21ist Century
Molefi K. Asante Speaks
Chapter 9: Taking a Stance for Equity and Fairness
Maxine Greene Speaks
Chapter 10: Anti-colonial Thought and Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Doing
George Sefa Dei Speaks
Chapter 11: The Politics of Representation: A Social Justice Issue
Stuart Hall Speaks
Conclusion
About the Author
About the Interviewees
