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    Chapter Nine: Critical Race Theory as Educational Protest: POWER and PRAXIS
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    1. vgapuz 16 Sep 2020
      The work ahead is immense, but the premise remains: if both commu- nities do not engage the process of maintaining a functional, productive school, the powers that be will take over and impose their own agenda.

      The role of CPS is strategic in that it is pushing communities of color to do the labor and threatening them that if they don't continue to do so, they will intervene and impose their own agenda.

      This reminds me of the labor that communities of color do to collective and organize. Burn out is so real and this is why a community of care is so important. We must look out for one another and ensure that everyone is also prioritizing their mental wellbeing in the process of working towards racial justice and equality. We must create communal processes that are sustainable for the movement.

    2. vgapuz 16 Sep 2020
      f professors are involved in similar struggles, examples can be provided to help contextualize how racism operates in public school- ing. From there, scholars can assist activists' work from an experiential knowl- edge base.

      I like how Stovall outlined the ways scholars and activists can work together in making CRT accessible. Knowledge that comes from experience and the community should inform theory and higher education. Higher academia needs to incorporate more community-based scholarship.

    3. vgapuz 16 Sep 2020
      rams aimed at diver- sity are suspect as a "sanitation" of the language of the Civil Rights Movement. The idea of multicultural education holds that "we're all immigrants and need to rise above immigrant status despite the various histories of specific groups and forced immigration"

      Diversity and multicultural education became buzz words that attempted to address the needs of Black students and students of color. However, diversity and multicultural education were performative in a sense that they did not address the structural barriers and systems of inequality that limit BIPOC in their everyday lives. I like how Stovall describes these as a "sanitation" because it's a surface-level policy.

    4. vgapuz 16 Sep 2020
      In protest of the current conditions of urban public education, its inten- tion is to provide a radical constructive critique - radical because CRT in this sense is not a tool of educational reform. Where a reform effort may propose a change from within or a change of existing structures, CRT suggests a con- certed effort, from those negatively affected by the current system, to deter- mine their own needs and respon

      When speaking of reform, this passage reminds me of Audre Lorde's "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House" in which systems of power cannot be dismantled when using the tools of the oppressor. Reform pushes for change WITHIN a system, rather than destroying the oppressive system itself.

      As Gabi has said, I agree that there needs to be an abolition of schools. I know that David Stovall works on school abolition as well as CRT.

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