A Critical Hope: Re/Imagining an Anticapitalist, Antiracist World Through Dialogic Consciousness Raising

• In Event: Narratives of Disruptions: Counter-Stories for Resistance and Possibilities in Graduate Education

Abstract

In this critical narrative, we–seven graduate students and one graduate course instructor–shared our experience from a Spring 2023 blended graduate course in a Midwestern university in the United States. Drawing on Casey’s (2016) anticapitalist antiracist pedagogy, we critically narrate our dialogic consciousness raising (Paris, 2011) experience from the classroom to re/imagine an anticapitalist antiracist world. Collectively, we attempted to build a critical hope through our critical dialogues in re/imagining such a world by creating a classroom praxis with similar characteristics and practices. In doing so, we challenged the racist capitalist approach in education that perceived classroom experience as mere preparation for the oppressive world instead of a radical space of possibility (hooks, 1994) for critical hope.

Authors

• Astri Napitupulu, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Christina J. Grove, School District of University City

• Jasmin Easterling, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Tracy Brosch, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Leslie Lorton Hamm, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Diana Hammond, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Necole Alexander, Normandy School District

• Katherine O'Daniels, University of Missouri - St. Louis