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Informationen zum Autor By Pierre Wilbert Orelus Klappentext Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with critical educators and prominent intellectuals, this book deeply explores a wide range of social justice issues, including the manner in which race, language, class, and gender discrimination intersect to affect the lives of historically oppressed groups. Zusammenfassung Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with critical educators and prominent intellectuals, this book deeply explores a wide range of social justice issues, including the manner in which race, language, class, and gender discrimination intersect to affect the lives of historically oppressed groups. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Love, Joy, and JusticeWilliam AyersAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Section One Chapter 1: Re-envisioning Social Justice and DemocracyNoam Chomsky SpeaksChapter 2: Questioning the Essentializing Convenience of GeneralizationsGayatri Chakravorty Spivak SpeaksChapter 3: Institutional Racism and White HegemonyAdolfo Acuna Speaks Chapter 4: Interrogating Class, Racism, and InequalityAntonia Darder Speaks Chapter 5: Re-envisioning the Life of Youth in the Age of Western Neo-liberalism Henry Giroux Speaks Chapter 6: Rethinking Literacy and Schooling in a Capitalist SocietyJames Gee SpeaksSection Two Chapter 7: Rethinking Schooling in a Neoliberal Economy Kevin Kumashiro SpeaksChapter 8: Re-defining Blackness in the 21ist CenturyMolefi K. Asante SpeaksChapter 9: Taking a Stance for Equity and FairnessMaxine Greene Speaks Chapter 10: Anti-colonial Thought and Indigenous Ways of Knowing and DoingGeorge Sefa Dei Speaks Chapter 11: The Politics of Representation: A Social Justice IssueStuart Hall SpeaksConclusionAbout the AuthorAbout the Interviewees