Selected Works of Antonia Darder

Kevin D. Lam is Associate Professor of Urban and Diversity Education at Drake University, USA. He is the author of Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling: Vietnamese American Youth in a Postcolonial Context (2015).Kortney Hernandez is Assistant Professor of Education at Westcliff University, USA. She is the author of Service Learning as a Political Act in Education: Bicultural Foundations for a Decolonizing Pedagogy (2017).

• List of Figures and TablesForeword: Teaching, Learning, and Loving for Transformation: A Foreword to The Selected Works of Antonia Darder, Gilda L. Ochoa Words from a Mentor, Carol Brunson DayEditors’ Preface: In Relationship with Antonia DarderThe Indispensable Praxis of Antonia Darder: An IntroductionPart One: Reinventing Paulo Freire1. Liberation: Our Historical Task2. Teaching as an Act of Love: In Memory of Paulo Freire3. Introduction: Pedagogy of the HeartPart Two: The Politics Of Biculturalism4. A Critical Theory of Cultural Democracy5. The Politics of Biculturalism: Culture and Difference in the Formation of Warriors for Gringostroika and the New Mestizas6. Neoliberalism in the Academic Borderlands: An On-going Struggle for Equality and Human RightsPart Three: Decolonizing Interpretive Methodology7. Problematizing the Notion of Puerto Ricans as “Underclass: A Step Toward a Decolonizing Study of Poverty8. Decolonizing the Flesh: The Body, Pedagogy, and Inequality9. “Decolonizing Interpretive Research: Subaltern Sensibilities and the Politics of Voice”Part Four: Toward a Critical Theory of Racism10. Shattering the “Race” Lens: Toward a Critical Theory of Racism11. What’s So Critical about Critical Race Theory? A Conceptual Interrogation with Rodolfo Torres12. Racism in a Medically Segregated World13. A Marxist Challenge to the Concept of “Race”Part Five: Interrogating Latino Studies14. Mapping Latino Studies: Critical Reflections On Class And Social Theory15. Radicalizing the Immigrant Debate in the United States: A Call for Open Borders and Global Human Rights16. Latinos, Education, and the Church: Toward a Culturally Democratic FuturePart Six: Critical Pedagogy, Social Justice, and the Politics of DifferenceIntroduction17. Political Grace and Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy18. Radio and the Art of Resistance: A Public Pedagogy of the Airwaves19. Critical Leadership for Social Justice: Unveiling the Dirty Little Secret of Power and PrivilegeAfterword: The Darder Question: ‘To End the World as We Know it.’, João M. ParaskevaEpilogue: Teaching for the End of the World (As We Know It): Decolonizing the Curricular Limits of ModernityReferencesIndex

The Selected Works of Antonia Darder: On Theory, Politics, and Struggle is a luminous testament to one of the most influential critical pedagogues of our time. With uncompromising brilliance, humility, clarity and fierce compassion, this collection spans four decades of Darder’s revolutionary praxis—linking Freirean pedagogy, biculturalism, decolonial thought, and radical love. Each essay pulses with a commitment to liberation, offering educators, activists, and students not just a vision of justice, but a methodology for achieving it. This is a book that does not simply inform—it awakens, transforms, and dares us to begin again in dark times.