Foreword: Love, Joy, and Justice
William Ayers
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section One
Chapter 1: Re-envisioning Social Justice and Democracy
Noam Chomsky Speaks
Chapter 2: Questioning the Essentializing Convenience of Generalizations
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Speaks
Chapter 3: Institutional Racism and White Hegemony
Adolfo Acuna Speaks
Chapter 4: Interrogating Class, Racism, and Inequality
Antonia Darder Speaks
Chapter 5: Re-envisioning the Life of Youth in the Age of Western Neo-liberalism
Henry Giroux Speaks
Chapter 6: Rethinking Literacy and Schooling in a Capitalist Society
James Gee Speaks
Section Two
Chapter 7: Rethinking Schooling in a Neoliberal Economy
Kevin Kumashiro Speaks
Chapter 8: Re-defining Blackness in the 21ist Century
Molefi K. Asante Speaks
Chapter 9: Taking a Stance for Equity and Fairness
Maxine Greene Speaks
Chapter 10: Anti-colonial Thought and Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Doing
George Sefa Dei Speaks
Chapter 11: The Politics of Representation: A Social Justice Issue
Stuart Hall Speaks
Conclusion
About the Author
About the Interviewees

Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with critical educators and prominent intellectuals, this book deeply explores a wide range of social justice issues, including the manner in which race, language, class, and gender discrimination intersect to affect the lives of historically oppressed groups.

Pierre Wilbert Orelus is associate professor in the curriculum and instruction department at New Mexico State University. His latest books include Race, Power, and the Obama Legacy (Routledge, 2015).