Toward an Anti-Imperial Thought in Education: Pedagogy, Methodology, and Struggle for a World Anew

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Our symposium imagines the historic possibility of anti-imperial thought in education. The current global context demands that scholars reflect on the educational ramifications of warfare, violence, and dispossession. Our papers bring together critiques of US imperialism through the labor of public intellectuals, trained in academia, the church, and factories. Their understanding of empire and its inextricable relationship to racial capitalism offers a theory for not only naming the violence and oppression necessary for exploitation and expropriation but also offers critical frameworks for collective resistance and movement building. We engage with the questions of internationalism, radical thought, methodology, and solidarity in our vision for building a critical pedagogy rooted in the liberation of peoples impacted by the history of US imperialism.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education

Chair

• Kevin D. Lam, Drake University

Papers

• Reading Archives and Writing Colonial Histories: Methodological Approaches to US Colonial Education in the Philippines - Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University

• Education by Movement: School Restructuring, Racial Capitalism, and the Black Radical Tradition in Rural Detroit - Ezekiel Joubert, California State University - Los Angeles

• Deconstructing King’s “Beyond Vietnam”: Pedagogy, Decolonial Thought, and Internationalism during the Vietnam Era - Kevin D. Lam, Drake University

• Du Bois and Ambedkar: Discourse on Race and Caste - Kamau Rashid, Northeastern Illinois University

Session Organizer

• Kevin D. Lam, Drake University

Discussant

• Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University