Social Justice for the Oppressed : Critical Educators and Intellectuals Speak Out.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Overview -- Chapter One: Re-envisioning Social Justice and Democracy -- Chapter Two: Questioning the Essentializing Convenience of Generalizations -- Chapter Three: Institutional Racism and White Hegemony -- Chapter Four: Interrogating Class, Racism, and Inequality -- Chapter Five: Re-envisioning the Life of Youth in the Age of Western Neoliberalism -- Chapter Six: Rethinking Literacy and Schooling in a Capitalist Society -- II: Overview -- Chapter Seven: Rethinking Schooling in a Neoliberal Economy -- Chapter Eight: Redefining Blackness in the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter Nine: Taking a Stance for Equity and Fairness -- Chapter Ten: Anticolonial Thought and Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Doing -- Chapter Eleven: The Politics of Representation -- Conclusion -- About the Author -- About the Interviewees.

Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with critical educators and prominent intellectuals, this book deeply explores a wide range of social justice issues, including the manner in which race, language, class, and gender discrimination intersect to affect the lives of historically oppressed groups.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.