Unlearning racism
The classroom as a space for social transformation through borderlands pedagogy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21611159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Mark Montoya (0000-0003-3856-9203, Northern Arizona University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 148-157 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Justice Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1028-2580 • E-ISSN: 1477-2248 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10282580.2020.1755844 |
| OpenAlex | W3016286251 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands are fraught with conflicts, metaphors, and euphemisms. As such, many students are cautious speaking to the complexities of the borderlands when they realize racist and anti-immigrant discourse are at its core. Borderlands pedagogy, however, can serve as a means of connectivity for social justice courses and for social and transformative justice curricula. This paper argues the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, as articulated through the citizenship regime, deals primarily in power and control; and those who have the power to define citizenship are those who have the control to claim citizenship. However, the transformative classroom can also help students articulate citizenship at various levels for empowerment and against the citizenship regime, and hence against racism. While scholarly focus on the borderlands has generally been on legalized notions of citizenship or on the border wall itself, borderlands pedagogy is useful in explaining and understanding the inherent racism of the citizenship regime; and especially how we as diverse learning communities can challenge it, and consequently tear down walls; starting in the classroom
Citizenship · Critical pedagogy · Curriculum · Economic Justice · Empowerment · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Racism · Social change · Social transformation · Sociology · Transformative learning · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |