Inequities are primarily power and privilege problems, not primarily cultural problems. Equity requires power and privilege solutions, not just cultural solutions. Frameworks that attend to diversity purely in vague cultural terms, like the “culture of poverty,” are no threat to inequity.
Reaching back in time:
* “Education for Critical Consciousness”; Paolo Friere (https://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Education+for+Critical+Consciousness)
** https://books.google.ca/books?id=8Ope5uESX04C&printsec=frontcover
** http://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Paulo-Freire-Education-for-Critical-Consciousness-Continuum-Impacts-2005.pdf
* “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”; Friere (https://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=pedagogy+of+the+oppressed)
** https://books.google.ca/books?id=OrVLDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover
* “Friere Reader” (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=The+Paulo+Freire+Reader)
Thank you for these!
keep on keepin’ on!
–ben