Those who are oppressed often find themselves internalizing voices that limit their ability. This article focuses on a population that falls on the non-hegemonic side of the intersection of race, class, gender, and age: Black girls from poor and working-class backgrounds. From my work with youth, I have noticed that internalizing these limiting…

Prof. Niemonen claims that the concept of white privilege is "anti-sociological" and "mask[s] complex race-class interactions." He highlights the importance of including social class in discussions of white privilege but focuses exclusively on the white working class, neglecting how race and social class also intersect for…

This storytelling begins with a positioning of why and how we use "testimonio" as part of a larger project of social justice and transformative pedagogies. In this collective "testimonio," 5 working-class Latina scholars tell the stories of their struggles to overcome the challenges of language and assimilation, of gender discrimination and…

In the context of teaching urban working-class adults basic math and statistics for the social sciences, demonstrates ways in which Freire's critical education theory can illuminate specific problems and solutions in critical teaching and ways in which math education can contribute to liberating social change. (CMG)

Discusses Gramsci's political education model, which explains the role of education in building an alternative, anti-capitalist cultural formation. Considers the definition of hegemony, the form of pedagogy best serving to develop critical consciousness, Gramsci's break with Marxist-Leninist traditions, and the revolutionary role of the common…

White and Hopi antiracist scholars and activists from working-class backgrounds, the authors write from a common heritage of claiming social origins the academy deems suspect. Refusing to abandon their social origins at the gate of the ivory tower, they name the colonial foundations of the academy and seek a new naming through their…