BIPOC Alliances: Building Communities and Curricula (Curriculum and Pedagogy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798887300573

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

BIPOC Alliances: Building Communities and Curricula is a collection of reflective experiences that confront, challenge, and resist hegemonic academic canons. BIPOC perspectives are often scarce in scholarly academic venues and curriculum. This edited book is a curated collection of interdisciplinary, underrepresented voices, and lived experiences through critical methodologies for empowerment (Reilly & Lippard, 2018). Gloria Anzaldu a’s (2015) autohistoria-teorí a is a lens for decolonizing and theorizing of one’s own experiences, historical contexts, knowledge, and performances through creative acts, curriculum, and writing. Gloria Anzaldu a coined, autohistoria-teorí a, a feminist writing practice of testimonio as a way to create self-knowledge, belonging, and to bridge collaborative spaces through self-empowerment. Anzaldu a encouraged us to focus towards social change through our testimonios and art, “[t]he healing images and narratives we imagine will eventually materialize” (Anzaldu a & Keating, 2009, p. 247). For this collection, we use lived experience or testimonios as an approach, a method, to conduct research and to bear witness to learners and one’s own experiences (Reyes & Rodrí guez, 2012). Maxine Greene’s (1995) concept of an emancipated pedagogy merges art, culture, and history as one education that empowers students with Gloria Anzaldu a’s (2015) autohistoria-teorí a to re-imagine individual and collective inclusion by allowing students “... to read and to name, to write and to rewrite their own lived worlds” (Greene, 1995, pp. 147). Greene and Anzaldu a reach beyond theorizing and creating curriculum for awareness and expand the crossings into active and critical self- reflective work to rewrite one’s own empowered stories and engage in a healing process.

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About the Author

Indira Bailey, Clafin University

Christen Sperry García, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Glynnis Reed, Pennsylvania State University

Leslie C. Sotomayor II, Texas Tech University

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798887300573
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Bailey Indira, García Christen Sperry, Reed Glynnis, Sotomayor II Leslie C.