Kempf Breaching the Colonial Contract

Anti-Colonialism in the US and Canada
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9944-1
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 270 Seiten

Reihe: Explorations of Educational Purpose

Almost a decade in, Empire remains the 21st Century's dominant mode of cultural production, and North America remains at the apex of the colonial imperative. The contributors to this volume argue that, far from being a post-colonial world, the struggle for independence of polity and culture is still alive and relevant. The book brings together relevant examples of anti-colonial discourse and struggle from across the US and Canada, providing unique perspectives on resistance, activism, scholarship and pedagogy. Anti-colonialism is an evolving framework to which this book hopes to make a unique contribution, with the range, depth and analytical approach of the chapters it contains. The emphasis on anti-colonial resistance here is significant, as it consistently reveals the personal commitment required for the undoing of domination, as well as the ways in which people can collectively pursue radical politics in their aim of bringing about social justice. The book examines a multitude of actions which could be termed anti-colonial, from student walkouts along the US/Mexico border, to interrogations of the relationship between indigenous and anti-racist struggles in North America, to analyses of the implications of anti-colonialism for community unionism as well as disability rights struggles. Chapters also look at the movement for Africentric schools in Toronto, provide an annotated and comparative look at the myriad struggles for and by the Fourth World and Fourth World nations, and analyze the creation of an anti-colonial classroom in a Montreal university. They also explore the colonial underpinnings of multicultural education in the US. With contributions from leading thinkers such as Henry Giroux, Ward Churchill, and Peter McLaren, as well as fresh perspectives from junior academics, this book provides a diverse and varied survey of anti-colonialism in the US and Canada. It will be a thought-provoking read for those working in a wide variety of disciplines, from Sociology to Politics. In daring and incisive ways, Arlo Kempf's collection further positions anti-colonialism as the necessary educational project for the colonizer and colonized within us all; it reflectively re-sets the radical education agenda, with telling historical and current instances that are used by the book's authors to move constructively forward in critical ways. John Willinsky, Stanford University, USA

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kempf, Arlo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;7
2;Foreword;9
3;Notes;16
4;References;16
5;Contents;17
6;Introduction: The Politics of the North American Colonial in 2009;19
6.1;References;29
7;Chapter 1 Contemporary Anticolonialism: A Transhistorical Perspective;30
7.1;1.1 Introduction;30
7.2;1.2 Colonialism and Anticolonialism;32
7.3;1.3 Anticolonialism and Whiteness: On Location, Privilege, and Accountability;36
7.4;1.4 Anticolonial Historiography;44
7.5;1.5 Conclusion;47
7.6;Notes;48
7.7;References;49
8;Chapter 2 Self-Determination and the Fourth World: An Introductory Survey;52
8.1;Notes;60
8.2;References;62
9;Chapter 3 Making Explicit the Jurisprudential Foundations of Multiculturalism: The Continuing Challenges of Colonial Education in US Schooling for Indigenous Education;69
9.1;3.1 How Colonization Has Organized Identity Within the United States: An Examination of Central Legal Sources;71
9.2;3.2 From Supreme Court Precedent to Normative Multicultural Education: The Central Role of Citizenship, Equality, and Diversity in Multiculturalism;83
9.3;3.3 The Maintenance of the Colonial Project in Law and Normative Multicultural Education: The Challenge for Both Native Peoples and Communities of Color;86
9.4;3.4 Conclusion: Interest Convergence and the Singularity Thesis: Rely on US Law at Your Own Peril;88
9.5;Notes;89
9.6;References;90
9.7;Appendix;93
10;Chapter 4 Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism;95
10.1;4.1 Homelessness and the Border Intellectual;96
10.2;4.2 Freire as Border Crosser;98
10.3;4.3 Freire and Postcolonial Discourse;101
10.4;Notes;103
10.5;Reference;104
11;Chapter 5 Walking Out of Colonialism One Classroom at a Time: Student Walkouts and Colonial/ Modern Disciplinarity in El Paso, Texas;106
11.1;5.1 Introduction;106
11.2;5.2 Colonial/Modern Disciplinarity in the US–Mexico Borderlands;107
11.3;5.3 The Colonialist Classroom in El Paso;109
11.4;5.4 Historical Memory and US Colonialism;110
11.5;5.5 Walking Out of Colonialism and the Strategies of Containment;111
11.6;5.6 Conclusion;114
11.7;Notes;115
11.8;References;116
12;Chapter 6 Indigenous Peoples and Black People in Canada: Settlers or Allies?;119
12.1;6.1 Introduction;119
12.2;6.2 Our Different Places in the Story…;121
12.3;6.3 Historical Context: Colonization and Settlement in Canada;126
12.4;6.4 Indigenous Ways of Maintaining Relatedness;130
12.5;6.5 Another Way of Understanding the Story: The Theoretical Picture of Our Relations in Black Thought;132
12.6;6.6 Racial Classification and Its Effect on Indigenous–Black Relations;139
12.7;6.7 Where Are the Struggles Today and What Are the Implications?;140
12.8;Notes;146
12.9;References;148
13;Chapter 7 Resistance from the Margin: Voices of African-Canadian Parents on Africentric Education;151
13.1;7.1 Finding Our Voices: The Rage at the Margin;151
13.2;7.2 Mapping Anticolonial Terrain for Africentric Schools;153
13.3;7.3 Methodology;156
13.4;7.4 The Sensation of Moving While Still Standing: The Education of Black Youth in Toronto;157
13.5;7.5 Issues of Parental Involvement: Dispelling the Myth;159
13.6;7.6 In Search of an Alternative Approach to Schooling: Black Students and Learning;162
13.7;7.7 Much Ado About Segregation in Africentric Schools and Issues of Re(Segregation);165
13.8;7.8 Discussions and Conclusion;168
13.9;7.9 Postscript;169
13.10;Note;170
13.11;References;170
14;Chapter 8 Anticolonialism, Labor, and the Pedagogies of Community Unionism: The Case of Hotel Workers in Canada;173
14.1;8.1 Introduction;173
14.2;8.2 Context;175
14.3;8.3 Reading Anticolonialist Thought: Setting the Stage for Understanding Hotel Worker Campaigns;177
14.4;8.4 Organized Labor, Re-colonialism–Anticolonialism: Community Unionism as a Departure?;181
14.5;8.5 The Hotel Worker Rising and Community Benefits Campaigns;185
14.6;8.6 Conclusions;188
14.7;Notes;190
14.8;References;190
15;Chapter 9 The Anguish of Power: Remapping Mental Diversity with an Anticolonial Compass;193
15.1;9.1 Introduction;193
15.2;9.2 The WHO and Mental Illness;194
15.3;9.3 The Imperative of Mental Illness;195
15.4;9.4 Living with “Mental Issues”;196
15.5;9.5 The Colonial Imperative;199
15.6;9.6 The Imperative of the Problem Population;202
15.7;9.7 The Colonial Past in the Globalized Future;205
15.8;9.8 Decolonizing Disability;208
15.9;9.9 Conclusion: Desiring Other Maps;210
15.10;Notes;211
15.11;References;212
16;Chapter 10 The Harvesting of Intellectuals and Intellectual Labor: The University System as a Reconstructed/Continued Colonial Space for the Acquisition of Knowledge;214
16.1;10.1 The Harvesting and Planting of Knowledge: A Plantational Approach;215
16.2;10.2 A Historic Shift in Valued Labor: Experiences Within the African Diaspora;219
16.3;Notes;227
16.4;References;228
17;Chapter 11 Building Anticolonial Spaces for Global Education: Challenges and Reflections;231
17.1;11.1 Introduction;231
17.2;11.2 Anticolonial Education;233
17.3;11.3 Anticolonial Global Education;235
17.4;11.4 EDEC 301;237
17.5;11.5 Risk and Engagement: The Affective Challenges of Anticolonial Learning;239
17.6;11.6 PRAXIS;242
17.7;11.7 Conclusion: Reflections on Lessons Learned;244
17.8;Notes;246
17.9;References;246
18;Chapter 12 The Eighteenth Brumaire of Gaius Baltar: Colonialism Reimagined in Battlestar Galactica;249
18.1;Notes;261
18.2;References;262
19;Afterword;263
20;Index;270