The Selected Works of Antonia Darder by Lam, Kevin D.; Hernandez, Kortney;

Short description:

Spanning more than three decades, this reader presents the best work by the internationally renowned critical education professor and activist Antonia Darder.

Long 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 Joï¿1⁄2o M. Paraskeva.

Table of Contents:

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List of Figures and Tables
Foreword: Teaching, Learning, and Loving for Transformation: A Foreword to The Selected Works of Antonia Darder, Gilda L. Ochoa
Words from a Mentor, Carol Brunson Day
Editors' Preface: In Relationship with Antonia Darder
The Indispensable Praxis of Antonia Darder: An Introduction
Part One: Reinventing Paulo Freire
1. Liberation: Our Historical Task
2. Teaching as an Act of Love: In Memory of Paulo Freire
3. Introduction: Pedagogy of the Heart
Part Two: The Politics Of Biculturalism
4. A Critical Theory of Cultural Democracy
5. The Politics of Biculturalism: Culture and Difference in the Formation of Warriors for Gringostroika and the New Mestizas
6. Neoliberalism in the Academic Borderlands: An On-going Struggle for Equality and Human Rights
Part Three: Decolonizing Interpretive Methodology
7. Problematizing the Notion of Puerto Ricans as ""Underclass: A Step Toward a Decolonizing Study of Poverty
8. Decolonizing the Flesh: The Body, Pedagogy, and Inequality
9. ""Decolonizing Interpretive Research: Subaltern Sensibilities and the Politics of Voice""
Part Four: Toward a Critical Theory of Racism
10. Shattering the ""Race"" Lens: Toward a Critical Theory of Racism
11. What's So Critical about Critical Race Theory? A Conceptual Interrogation with Rodolfo Torres
12. Racism in a Medically Segregated World
13. A Marxist Challenge to the Concept of ""Race""
Part Five: Interrogating Latino Studies
14. Mapping Latino Studies: Critical Reflections On Class And Social Theory
15. Radicalizing the Immigrant Debate in the United States: A Call for Open Borders and Global Human Rights
16. Latinos, Education, and the Church: Toward a Culturally Democratic Future
Part Six: Critical Pedagogy, Social Justice, and the Politics of Difference
Introduction
17. Political Grace and Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy
18. Radio and the Art of Resistance: A Public Pedagogy of the Airwaves
19. Critical Leadership for Social Justice: Unveiling the Dirty Little Secret of Power and Privilege
Afterword: The Darder Question: 'To End the World as We Know it.', Joï¿1⁄2o M. Paraskeva
Epilogue: Teaching for the End of the World (As We Know It): Decolonizing the Curricular Limits of Modernity
References
Index