Antonia Darder

• Loyola Marymount University

Este artículo ofrece una exhaustiva reflexión crítica sobre diferentes problemas que repercuten en la práctica de la democracia cultural en la educación. La discusión se inicia mediante la identificación de las condiciones contemporáneas de desigualdad a las que se enfrentan las comunidades subalternas en Estados Unidos y en otros países. El elemen...

The chapter explores the work of a Seattle-based community-based cultural performing group, Grupo Bayano, who for more than 40 years has employed the music and dances of U.S. Caribbean communities to work with teachers of young children, young people, and community members. The group enacts communal dance as a decolonizing praxis grounded in the cu...

This edited collection profiles the sites and subjects of arts practices in different geographical contexts, including Hong Kong and mainland China, India and Sri Lanka, Finland, Chile, Brazil, Lebanon, Mexico, the USA, Germany, Canada, the UK, and Ireland. Chapters capture how collective hopes, fears, allegiances, frustrations, and memories, are s...

Introduction The earliest language was the body … if we only pay attention to or place value on spoken or written language, then we are ruling out a large area of human language. Paulo Freire and Antonio Faundez (1989: 37–8) Human beings do not suddenly become oppressed, but rather are systematically initiated into a political economy of enslavemen...

This chapter examines Paulo Freire’s concept of conscientizaçao and points to an understanding of critical awareness and the formation of social consciousness as both a historical phenomenon and a human social process connected to our communal capacities to become authors and social actors of our destinies. Darder describes how Freire’s conscientiz...

O artigo analisa o modo como o uso de uma pedagogia bicultural crítica da dança com as comunidades oprimidas dos Estados Unidos pode apoiar o desenvolvimento da literacia cultural das crianças, das suas famílias e das comunidades. No centro desta análise específica está a prática afro-porto-riquenha da Bomba pelo Grupo Bayano numa comunidade em Sea...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion of decolonizing interpretive research in ways that respect and integrate the qualitative sensibilities of subaltern voices in the knowledge production of anti-colonial possibilities. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws from the decolonizing and post-colonial theoretical tradition,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a sense of the perspectives that guide the collection of articles. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides an introductory essay regarding the contributions and critics associated with Spivak’s work. Findings In addition, the contents lay out brief descriptions of the articles included in th...

One of the most influential critical educators of the twentieth century, Paulo Freire challenged those educational inequalities and conditions of injustice faced by oppressed populations. In this new edition of Reinventing Paulo Freire, Antonia Darder re-examines his legacy through reflections on Freirean pedagogy and the narratives of teachers who...

The article examines the current conditions of labour within the neoliberal university, particularly with respect to the labour of borderland academics. Borderland is used in this instance to refer to the political space embodied by radical intellectuals across disciplines engaged in examining questions of class, race, gender and other social forma...

Corrigendum:Editorial introduction and Arizona: National Tea Party HeadquartersA comparative review of three booksAuthors: Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres & Gilbert G. Gonzalez, respectively Published in Ethnicities 2015, Volume 15 Issue 2, pages 157-164 and 302-318, respectively. DOI: 10.1177/1468796814557657 and 10.1177/1468796814557656, res...

Throughout my lifetime, the US government has been in a permanent state of war. Over a hundred overt military campaigns of varying degrees have been undertaken in the name of peace; and who knows how many covert operations have been launched. As a Puerto Rican child, my very identity from the beginning has been intimately intertwined with a legacy...

The revitalization of public democratic life, as articulated in these words by Henry Giroux, speaks to the heart of all efforts linked to forging a public pedagogical practice of adult education. In contrast, it is through both the silencing and dismantling of democratic participatory rights that we are rendered most vulnerable to the destructive i...

The article examines the negative impact of neoliberal policies upon the work of border intellectuals within the university, whose scholarship seeks to explicitly challenge longstanding structural inequalities and social exclusions. More specifically, the notion of neoliberal multiculturalism is defined and discussed with respect to the phenomenon...

Central to the history of colonization has been the use of restrictive language policies to ensure the exclusion of racialized populations from full participation within the economic and political landscape of the nation state. Hence, understanding the educational barriers of exclusion, along with the academic impact that such language policies pro...

The politics of the airwaves should be of vital concern to critical democracy, given the expanding realm of neoliberalism and its deeply homogenizing impact on social, political and economic relations everywhere. In light of the privatizing forces that control the media today, the article considers the manner in which community radio can provide pu...

This article provides a space to explore, through artistic representations and the words of artists themselves, the manner in which politically engaged artists use their visual art, poetry, music, dance, and theatre performances as an effective tool for public pedagogy. In turn, these artists provide those who enter into their cultural production a...

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 stand as a clear demarcating moment in the history of the United States. These attacks on U.S. soil destroyed the comforting illusion of security and invincibility long held as the mainstay of our democracy. No longer would U.S. elites, political officials, and businessmen...

This chapter considers issues related to institutional research and its potential role in the move toward an ethos of cultural democracy in higher education.

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During the last 30 years, we have witnessed an explosion of scholarship focused on Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, & other Latin American populations within the US. The outcome is the establishment of a field now known as Latino Studies. This article provides a critical reflection of theoretical strands important to the development of...

A recent international symposium on radicalizing feminism explored ways of developing a dialogic feminism that emphasizes working in different settings under the common goal of including women who have been invisible in the dominant feminist literature by furthering theories and practices based on the principles of dialogic feminism. The seminar in...

For Paulo Freire, a democratic education could not be conceived without a profound commitment to humanity and a recognition of the dialectical relationship between cultural existence as individuals and political and economic existence as social beings. Freire believed that to solve the educational difficulties of students from oppressed communities...

The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily measured in standard quantified scientific inquiry. It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of historical amnesia induced by the dominant polici...

The article examines the social science concept of the underclass with respect to its historical origin, meaning and general usage during the past 3 decades and more specifically, in terms of its more recent use for Puerto Ricans. A critique is presented that not only challenges the use of the term "underclass" to describe the phenomenon of poverty...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Claremont Graduate School, 1989. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 168-174). Photocopy.