Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy in Times of Racial Crisis: Teaching for Freedom

• In Event: 69.057 - Roundtable Session 32
  In Roundtable Session: 69.057-5 - Interests, Desires, and Identities: Understanding Educational Policy and Practices Through Ideologies of Race and Racism

Abstract

The widely publicized killings and humiliations of people of color has finally severed any illusion of a post-racial society. This paper engages a Marxist dialectical understanding of racism that supports and sustains the goals of capitalist production and capital accumulation. We argue for the conjoining of anti-racist and class struggles and explore avenues that may point us toward a socialist alternative, where racialization and racism cease to be socially necessary (as under capitalism), and where human beings learn to value each other and all life forms, including the earth that sustains us. Toward this goal we offer three common sense notions that must be challenged: private property, a western view of history, and a conception of development as continual growth.

Authors

• Lilia D. Monzo, Chapman University

• Peter L. McLaren, Chapman University