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By rebuilding collective identities (racial, gendered, youth), exposing youth to critical thinking about social conditions, and building activism, youth of color are able to heal; they remove self-blame and act to confront pressing school and community problems.-- Ginwright, S. (2011)

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Tu eres mi otro yo

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"Education is key in creating agents for change and radical democracy" - Giroux

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"I found a place where I could imagine possible futures, a place where life could be lived differently. This 'lived' experiences of critical thinking, of reflection and analysis, because a place where I work at explaining the hurt and making it go away. Fundamentally, I learned from this experience that theory could be a healing place." Bell Hooks

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"...knowledge and reflection without action is worthless" (Furman, 2012, p.202)

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As Bettina Love (2019) reminds us, “pedagogy, regardless of its name, is useless without teachers dedicated to challenging systemic oppression with intersectional social justice” (p.3). _B. Love (Brian)

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"Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other."  (Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed)

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We cannot pursue educational freedom or any type of justice without a model of democracy that empowers all. We all thrive when everyday people resist when everyday people find their voice, when everyday people demand schools that are students’ homeplaces, and when everyday people understand that loving darkness is our path to humanity.
—Bettina Love, (Brian)

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"by first serving as a follower, a leader subsequently can best understand the followers" (Bass, 2007, p. 5).

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Doris Cristobal

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With so many people of color in prison in the U.S. in an unprecedented mass incarceration (more Black men in prison today than were held enslaved in 1860), with the 13th Amendment transferring the right to enslavement to the government, what kind of democracy are we talking about? With our schools feeding the school-to-prison pipeline, schools indeed looking more and more like prisons, how do we understand democracy? --Rich Ayers (Brian)

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“Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed              Heather

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The assets of communities, including elders and those who have been marginalized, must be recognized and mobilized in the projects of education. Students need to see their communities' historic academic achievements in order to be empowered to imagine and create a world that has a place for them to thrive                                                           -Ted

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https://www.etsy.com/listing/881146677/bettina-love-digital-download?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_christmas_Art_and_Collectibles&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAiAzNj9BRBDEiwAPsL0dwXxLEC6GFearnGcfszsPBlALVII0Ags71dmp-xR7ux1zqcXA-iitRoCbNsQAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_1707294370_69268675129_331635229824_pla-314954651933_c__881146677_12768591&utm_custom2=1707294370&gclid=CjwKCAiAzNj9BRBDEiwAPsL0dwXxLEC6GFearnGcfszsPBlALVII0Ags71dmp-xR7ux1zqcXA-iitRoCbNsQAvD_BwE

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Nyree Clark

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"Because if I am not what I've been told I am, then it means that you're not what you thought you were either! And that is the crisis."   -James Baldwin (A Talk to Teachers)