Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Vocalizing Silenced Voices

White Supremacy, social caste, cultural hegemony, and narratives to overcome trauma and social injustice

Av Virginia Lea, Sapna Thapa, Emily Hines

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Beskrivning

In this book, we argue that authoritarian forces are working harder than ever to maintain, reinstate, and pass laws and policies that are antithetical to a kind, equitable, and socially just society that meets all of its citizens’ needs. American cultural hegemony—the dissemination process by which people are persuaded through laws and policies, institutional and cultural ideologies, norms, values, and practices to privilege the interests of powerful, disproportionately white, highstatus, and wealthy individuals and families—is ubiquitous. We learn to take for granted that the capitalist, social caste system in which we live, in largely segregated, racial, ethnic, and social class communities, is the best and fairest of all possible systems and just ‘the way things are.’ For example, large numbers of media and educational programs sell white supremacy, racism, social caste, sexism, and other forms of discrimination, as normal, natural, and common sense. Few schools teach children to become critically conscious of the hegemonic process by which social hierarchy in the United States has been handed down over more than four hundred years. Our research in this book names some of the above-mentioned laws, policies, and ways of framing reality that maintain the inequitable system in which we live, and silence and traumatize students, faculty, staff , and social justice activists in education and beyond. It also includes some alternative narratives being enacted by extraordinary educators, supporting collective action, critical consciousness, accountability, hope, equity, and social justice. Despite some social change, social caste continues to de- ne our lives. So, those of us who value democracy, equity, and social justice need to contribute, collectively and individually, to help our students and communities see through the gaslighting that conceals the lack of historical and current equity in our society—in other words, to recognize how cultural hegemony works to reproduce inequities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2024-07-31
Mått: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt: 463 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 228
Förlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN: 9781433152184

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Virginia Lea, Ph.D, is Executive Director of the Educultural Foundation, and Professor of Education Emerita at Sonoma State University and the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Her several books, articles and curricula focus on unmasking cultural hegemony and white supremacy, and contributing to greater equity, social justice, antiracism, and educulturalism.Dr. Sapna Thapa is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Urban Early Childhood Teacher Education at Metro State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her research areas focus on cross-cultural investigations of equity, quality, and diversity in early childhood teacher education. Her publications include articles related to policies on equity and quality in early childhood education and how globalization has raised the expectations of readiness for young children.Emily Hines, Ed.D, is a Professor of Reading at the University of WisconsinStout. She facilitates graduate reading programs and online professional development for K-12 educators. Emily’s research focus is literacy and diversity, where she believes the two intersect and are interdependent. Emily continues to grow and develop in her cultural competence and antiracism efforts.

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"As censorship regimes ramp up today, it's important to remember that educational institutions have long functioned to silence diversity and criticality in various ways, even as such hegemony has always been contested in ways both obvious and not. In Vocalizing Silenced Voices, Lea, Thapa, and Hines provide us with a timely and practical framework for understanding who, how, where, and why institutions silence, as they humbly invite us into their own journey of creating spaces of resistance and movement building, showcasing through a rich tapestry of student voices that anti-oppressive education is messy, yes, but doable and enlivening as well." Kevin KumashiroAuthor of "Surrendered: Why Progressive are Losing the Biggest Battles in Education"

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