Social justice for the oppressed : critical educators and intellectuals speak out

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.

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.