Children as waste.
It killed me every time Cindi Katz referred to my students, to me, as waste. I know she wasn’t saying it because she believes that we are waste, but instead demonstrates how we are treated as such...
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“Unlike the fiscal system, however, the urban and peri-urban social movements of opposition, of which there are many around the world, are not tightly coupled; indeed most have no connection to each...
View ArticleColonization here at home
Maybe I’m selfish, or self-centered, but everytime I read Linda Tuhiwai-Smith thoughts regarding the situation of our social-political-economic structure in the United States emerge and I begin seeing...
View Article“The institution forgets…
and the community remembers.” I loved when Dr. Smith said this. And it is very applicable to our students who are partaking in this project with Kristen and I. After our incident at the Silberman...
View ArticleBuried Treasures of Information
I haven’t read much about the prison system and the part of the Gilmore reading that really resonated with me and the work I feel I have been doing in class was the purposeful policies that target...
View ArticleA People’s Guide to El Barrio
Oh man! I am really feeling Pulido, L., Barraclough, L., & Cheng, W.’s People’s Guide to Los Angeles. I want to actually use it next time I’m in Los Angeles. Dang it, wish I knew about it earlier~...
View ArticleMothers ROC & GAPA
“We say there’s no justice. What are we going to do about it? . . . educate, organize, empower.” I enjoyed reading Gilmore’s chapter about Mothers Reclaiming Our Children, an organization founded to...
View ArticleR&R: From Virtual Public Spheres To Global Justice: A Critical Theory Of...
“As Marx so loudly proclaimed, and Foucault reiterated, domination fosters resistance” (Lagman, page 1). Is this the claim that the unconscious always resists domination? I dear to say that without a...
View ArticleTeddy Cruz Lecture Response: How Does El Barrio Live Beyond East Harlem?
The Teddy Cruz lecture was inspiring, thought provoking and powerful. It did not fail to live up to Professor Cahill’s introduction as she promised that his work excavates knowledge and engages...
View ArticleReading Reaction: Decolonization is not a metaphor
It is always exciting when readings begin with quotes by Black intellects. In this incident it is Frantz Fanon. I first read his work in high school upon the insistence of my uncle, Sociology professor...
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