Social justice for the oppressed : critical educators and intellectuals speak out / Pierre Wilbert Orelus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orelus, Pierre W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Minorities.

Discrimination.

Physical Description:

xviii; 148 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

Summary:

Social Justice for the Oppressed: Critical Educators and Intellectuals Speak Out draws from interviews conducted with prominent social justice educators and activist intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Stuart Hall, Henry A. 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 as well as 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Re-envisioning social justice and democracy : Noam Chomsky speaks

Questioning the essentializing convenience of generalizations : Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak speaks

Institutional racism and white hegemony : Adolfo Acuna speaks

Interrogating class, racism, and inequality : Antonia Darder speaks

Re-envisioning the life of youth in the age of western neo-liberalism : Henry Giroux speaks

Rethinking literacy and schooling in a capitalist society : James Gee speaks

Rethinking schooling in a neoliberal economy : Kevin Kumashiro speaks

Re-defining blackness in the 21ist century : Molefi K. Asante speaks

Taking a stance for equity and fairness : Maxine Greene speaks

Anti-colonial thought and indigenous ways of knowing and doing : George Sefa Dei speaks

The politics of representation : a social justice issue : Stuart Hall speaks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Orelus, Pierre W., author. Social justice for the oppressed.

ISBN:

9781475804478

1475804474

9781475804485

1475804482

OCLC:

961151513