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The Praxis of Ethnic Studies: Transforming Second Sight into Critical Consciousness
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Cammarota, Julio – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2016
This article focuses on a youth participatory action research (YPAR) program called the Social Justice Education Project (SJEP) that fostered young people of color's critical consciousness. Their critical consciousness emerged through praxis (reflection/action) while focusing on preserving ethnic studies in Tucson, Arizona. Because the SJEP home…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Praxis, Participatory Research, Action Research
Challenging Colorblindness in Arizona: Latina/o Students' Counter-Narratives of Race and Racism
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Cammarota, Julio – Multicultural Perspectives, 2014
This essay reviews Latina/o students' counter-narratives challenging colorblindness. The author highlights the experiences of students from Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American Studies program. By examining student counter-narratives, the author also identifies race-related terms that are more suitable for dialogue among and with…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Personal Narratives, Race, Racial Bias
From Hopelessness to Hope: Social Justice Pedagogy in Urban Education and Youth Development
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Cammarota, Julio – Urban Education, 2011
This article reviews the social justice youth development (SJYD) model conceptualized to facilitate and enhance urban youth awareness of their personal potential, community responsibility, and broader humanity. The SJYD requires the healing of youth identities by involving them in social justice activities that counter oppressive conditions…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Social Justice, Models, Community Responsibility
The Value of a Multicultural and Critical Pedagogy: Learning Democracy through Diversity and Dissent
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Cammarota, Julio – Multicultural Perspectives, 2011
In this article, the author argues that true knowledge of democracy requires learning about the values of diversity and dissent. The American brand of democratic ideology has inspired numerous movements for inclusion through the securing of rights and opportunities for marginalized populations. Multicultural education is a recent historical…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Multicultural Education, Dissent
Blindsided by the Avatar: White Saviors and Allies out of Hollywood and in Education
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Cammarota, Julio – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2011
This article discusses how the white savior syndrome renders the misrepresentation of the potential of people of color to resist and lead the transformation of oppressive conditions within their own social context. Indigenous resistance requires endogenous (internal) leadership such that all social justice actions derive from and continue to flow…
Descriptors: High School Students, Social Justice, Films, Classification
Notes from the Ethnic Studies Home Front: Student Protests, Texting, and Subtexts of Oppression
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Otero, Lydia R.; Cammarota, Julio – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
The protest against Arizona House Bill 2281 designed to ban Ethnic Studies from K-12 public schools on 12 May 2010 in Tucson resulted in 15 arrests. Students walked out of their classrooms in large numbers to defend their Mexican American Studies curriculum and program. Based primarily on participant observation of the protest, the authors examine…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Mexican American Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Participant Observation