Abstract: This special issue engages ethical, epistemic, political, and institutional issues in projects of collaborative research for justice that were designed with movements contesting policing, school closures, and youth disinvestment and unemployment. Three of the articles were collaboratively written by activists and scholars who drew from movements that deployed research for community-driven progressive change. The movements and the research are thus situated at the intersection of struggles against a resurgent anti-immigrant white supremacy, gentrification, a punitive carceral state, low pay and lack of meaningful employment opportunities, and the privatization of the public sector. These articles build upon and are in conversation with a set of related articles published in the spring 2018 special issue of Urban Education(Warren et al, 2018) that also addressed ethical, epistemic, political, and institutional tensions in collaborative research for justice. This EPAA special issue aims to advance the discussion through deep reflection within the context of focal ‘cases’ and within efforts to open space within universities for modes of engaged scholarship that can respond to the challenges of the current moment, as described in the articles that bookend the cases. Taken all together, this special issue demonstrates how scholars, educators, teachers, activists, community leaders, and policy makers can use the production and mobilization of knowledge as a force for building, supporting, sustaining, and advancing multi-issue movements for justice not just in schools and the academy but also in communities of color and others aggrieved by current inequities.
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Abstract: This chapter explores Paulo Freire’s insight that “hope is an ontological need” (Freire 1994b : 8) and argues that critical hope grounded in struggles for justice provides the best antidote to despair about the persistence of oppression. It situates this analysis within elements of the author’s personal history, and it deploys the argument to critique some false hopes that contribute to the despair that often limits the social and political commitments of white antiracism educators in the USA and related contexts. The chapter shows that an understanding of critical hope, a hope without a defi nite object, strengthens the resolve needed to keep antiracist social justice reformers moving toward their dreams.
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Abstract: Discute premissas subjacentes a perspectivas sobre raça e permite uma abordagem mais estratégica para transformar o racismo. Define cinco posições - supremacia racial, cegueira racial, sensibilidade racial, crítica racial e antirracista - que sugerem um caminho de desenvolvimento moral e político que pode guiar o trabalho nas escolas e na sociedade para superar o racismo. O objetivo da análise não é atribuir culpa ao passado ou ao presente; ao contrário, é fornecer uma estrutura para apoiar a responsabilidade e a prestação de contas individual e coletiva que pode levar à implementação de um grau maior de justiça. A educação racialmente crítica e antirracista une as pessoas à história de lutas por justiça e une umas às outras para as próximas lutas, criando assim o sonho de uma democracia justa mais perto de se tornar realidade.
Abstract: We critique the “college for all” discourse by unveiling its relationship to the politics of education, the broader economic and political contexts, and the class and race structures embedded in society and schooling, including higher education. We analyze the current and future labor markets to demonstrate the ways that the “college for all” discourse overstates the need for math and science knowledge and skills within the workforce, and we analyze the debt burdens associated with college attendance and completion to demonstrate that the promised benefits of “college for all” are often illusory for low-income, racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse students. Thus, we argue that “college for all”—just like “no child left behind” and the “race to the top”—functions as an ideological velvet to soften education policy talk, talk that actually carries big sticks that punish the very students proclaimed to be the beneficiaries of the proposed changes in schooling. The results of schooling practices articulated by the “college for all” discourse are (a) the reinforcement of material barriers to the stated aims of educational access and equity, and (b) the fortification of the class and race status quo. We examine the ways that the transformation of schooling must be linked to the establishment of just social, economic, and political institutions, and to the formation of a citizenry prepared to engage in the struggles for these institutions.
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