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Springer Breaching The Colonial Contract Anti-Colonialism In The Us And Canada 2009 Edition by Arlo Kempf
Almost a decade in Empire remains the 21st Century's dominant mode of cultural production and North America remains at the apex of the colonial imperative. The contributors to this volume argue that far from being a post-colonial world the struggle for independence of polity and culture is still alive and relevant.The book brings together relevant examples of anti-colonial discourse and struggle from across the US and Canada providing unique perspectives on resistance activism scholarship and pedagogy. Anti-colonialism is an evolving framework to which this book hopes to make a unique contribution with the range depth and analytical approach of the chapters it contains.The emphasis on anti-colonial resistance here is significant as it consistently reveals the personal commitment required for the undoing of domination as well as the ways in which people can collectively pursue radical politics in their aim of bringing about social justice. The book examines a multitude of actions which could be termed anti-colonial from student walkouts along the US/Mexico border to interrogations of the relationship between indigenous and anti-racist struggles in North America to analyses of the implications of anti-colonialism for community unionism as well as disability rights struggles.Chapters also look at the movement for Africentric schools in Toronto provide an annotated and comparative look at the myriad struggles for and by the Fourth World and Fourth World nations and analyze the creation of an anti-colonial classroom in a Montreal university. They also explore the colonial underpinnings of multicultural education in the US.With contributions from leading thinkers such as Henry Giroux Ward Churchill and Peter McLaren as well as fresh perspectives from junior academics this book provides a diverse and varied survey of anti-colonialism in the US and Canada. It will be a thought-provoking read for those working in a wide variety of disciplines from Sociology to Politics.In daring and incisive ways Arlo Kempf's collection further positions anti-colonialism as the necessary educational project for the colonizer and colonized within us all; it reflectively re-sets the radical education agenda with telling historical and current instances that are used by the book's authors to move constructively forward in critical ways. John Willinsky Stanford University USA Table of contents : Foreword - Peter McLarenIntroduction - Arlo KempfThe Politics of the North American Colonial in 2009Chapter One - Arlo KempfContemporary Anti-Colonialism: A Transhistorical PerspectiveChapter Two - Ward ChurchillSelf-Determination and the Fourth World: An Introductory Survey Chapter Three - Dolores CalderonMaking Explicit the Jurisprudential Foundations of Multiculturalism: The Continuing Challenges of Colonial Education in U.S. Schooling for Indigenous Education Chapter Four - Henri A. GirouxPaulo Freire and the Politics of PostcolonialismChapter Five - Antonio Reyes LopezDisrupting the Colonial Present: Chicana/o Student Walk-outs United States Colonialism and Disciplinarity in El Paso TX Chapter Six - Zainab Amadahy and Bonita LawrenceIndigenous Peoples and Black people in Canada: Settlers or Allies?Chapter Seven - Paul Adjei and Rosina AgyepongResistance from the margin: Voices of African-Canadian parents on Black focused EducationChapter Eight - Peter SawchukThrough the Lobby and Into the Streets: Towards a Pedagogy of Anti-colonial Trade Unionism in CanadaChapter Nine - Katie Aubrecht and Tanya TitchkoskyThe Anguish of Power: Re-mapping Mental Diversity with an Anti-Colonial CompassChapter Ten - Patrick S. De WaltThe Harvesting of Intellectuals and Intellectual Labor: The University System as a Reconstructed/Continued Colonial Space for the Acquisition of KnowledgeChapter Eleven - Jonathon Langdon and Blane HarveyBuilding Anti-Colonial Spaces of Education: Challenges and ReflectionsChapter Twelve - Laura King and John HutnykThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Gaius Baltar: Colonialism reimagined in Battlestar GalacticaAfterword - George J. Sefa DeiThe Anti-Colonial Theory and the Question of Survival and Responsibility