Prompt Critical Reflection 10!!!!! Doing Ethics from the Margins

Prompt Critical Reflection 8: Building a Social Movement of Antiracism

Reading: How to Be an…

Prompt CR 9: Unfinished Business, Addressing Injustice: The Work of Human Beings

I like to be human…

Unfinishedness

My social identity is quite strongly conditioned by the bigger structures around me. When I read this question I think of things in terms of being in the dominant group or the subordinate group. I have some things going for me in terms of being in a dominant group: I came from a middle class family…

Pedagogy of Freedom

Freire describes how social identity is conditioned by a larger structure. Such larger structures are part of social ideologies that guide our way of thinking. I was born with the ideology that education is something that one can take for granted as always had access to it. No one appreciates…

Two Sides of the Same Destructive Body

The selections we had to read from Kendi’s book was incredibly inspiring and eye opening. Just when I thought that Kendi had figured things out, he appeared to be back at square one with his thoughts and ideas. The transition from his ideas that people create…

Cutting Out the Cancer of Society: Stage 4 Racism

What?

After completing the reading this week, I felt the weight of how vital being “critically conscious” really is. In Chapter 18, “Survival,” Kendi says: “Our world is suffering from metastatic cancer. Stage 4…

Building an Antiracist Society

From a critically conscious perspective, individual, not racial, dysfunction is a direct consequence of structural and internalized inequality, resulting from power imbalances maintained by social norms, policies, and individual behaviors. Especially in the United States…

Anti-Racist

How to be an anti-racist is a very interesting book, that I really enjoyed reading. I think I will even buy the whole book. The most interesting chapter for, however, was chapter 8, as it discussed important topics that are relevant for schools. I particularly found the following distinction interesting…

Dismantling Racism

In “How To Be an Antiracist,” by Ibram X. Kendi, he argues that an idea, action, or policy is either racist, contributing to…