Radical Voices for Democratic Schooling

"Radical Voices for Democratic Schooling takes the pulse of the educational environment in the United States and finds that it is on life support. Conversations with leading thinkers with vast experience in the world of US education provide useful maps to understand this present and the way to a more enlightened future. An important collection for all those who are concerned about the devastation of the educational landscape." - Vijay Prashad, George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies, Trinity College, US "For over half a century, social criticism in the US was overwhelmed by a basic taboo. What was said or written about economics, politics, and culture avoided any direct or sustained criticism of the hegemonic economic system: capitalism. The very few who dared to violate the taboo were systematically marginalized professionally and often also personally. This taboo shielded capitalism, allowing its most socially retrograde tendencies finally to yield contemporary neoliberalism and the global crisis that erupted in 2007. This book makes an important contribution to the literature now exploding that taboo. It taps an impressively wide range of sources (that does not fear to include Marxism) and focuses a critical-yet-hopeful eye on education. Today's growing movement to question and change capitalism needs and will benefit from this book's thoughtful analysis." - Richard D. Wolff, Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School, New York, US

NOAM CHOMSKY Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Semantics, Philosophy of Language ANTONIA DARDER Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Latino/a Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA HERMAN GARCIA Regents Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, New Mexico State University, USA. He is Director of Elementary Education MANAL HAMZEH Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at New Mexico State University, USA DAVE HILL teaches at Middlesex University, London, England, and is Visiting Professor at the University of Athens, Greece, and of Critical Education Policy and Equality Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland PEPI LEISTYNA Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics Graduate Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and is the Director of the Center for World Languages and Cultures PETER MCLAREN Professor, School of Critical Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand BRADLEY PORFILIO Assistant Professor of Education at Lewis University in Romeoville, USA SHIRLEY STEINBERG Director and Chair of The Werklund Foundation Centre for Youth Leadership in Education, and Professor of Youth Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada

PART I: BEYOND THE DARKNESS OF NEOLIBERALS, CAPITALISM AND RACISM: TOWARD A MORE HUMAN WORLD. Introduction to Part I Re-examining The Impact of Colonialism and Neo-liberalism On Third World Countries: A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky Re-Examining Class and Racial Dominations in the New Era of Western Capitalism: A Conversation With Antonia Darder The Fight Against Neo-liberalism Has Just Begun: A Dialogue With Dave Hill A Critical Pedagogy of Revolutionary Solidarity Against Neoliberal, White-Supremacist, Petro-Chemical Plunder: A Conversation With Curry Stephenson Malott PART II: HOW DO SCHOOLS, THE MEDIA, AND THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM REPRODUCE SOCIAL INEQUALITIES? Introduction to Part II Class Warfare: A Dialogue With Pepi Leistyna Higher Education, Capitalism, Democracy, and Community: Challenges and Hope: A Dialogue With Hermn Garca Democracy and Social Justice in a Capitalist Society: Is This possible? A Conversation With Shirley Steinberg PART III: UNVEILING LINGUICISM, SEXISM, AND XENOPHOBIA IN THE SUPREME STAGE OF NEO- LIBERALISM AND NEO-COLONIALISM Introduction to Part III An Arab-Muslim Feminist Negotiating Gender/Nation/Sexuality/Colonial Discourses: A Conversation With Manal Hamzeh De-Neocolonizing Schools-Toward a Transformative School System: Pierre Orelus and Giuseppe de Simone: A Dialogue Fighting Microaggressions on University/College Campuses: A Conversation With Maribel Oropeza PART IV: INDIGENOUS VOICES ECHOING AGAINST NEOCOLONIALISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY Introduction to Part IV Resisting the WhiteStream: A Conversation With Sandy Grande A Pedagogy of Combat: Confrontations with American Racism, Colonialism, and the Whiteness of Genocide: An Interview with Ward Churchill Conclusion