@article{Harrington_2021, title={Beyond the Gates: Teaching Race and Politics in Brazil in a Prison Education Program }, volume={121}, url={https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/article/view/897}, DOI={10.5195/rt.2021.897}, abstractNote={<p><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">The project</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> of liberatory education is fraught with complications in a Small Liberal Arts College or SLAC environment. Authors bell hooks and Paulo </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">Freire</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">look to an ethics of care, love, and </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">mutual restoration </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">of</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> humanity</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> through teaching openly and freely. My initial teaching experiences as an assistant professor re</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">vealed that this liberatory aim </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">could not be fulfilled at the college campus, so I taught in a prison </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">college </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">education program.</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">The goals of this article are: </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">1) </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">to </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">elucidate</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> the complicated relationship that a woman faculty of color at the intersections of multiple identities has in adjusting to the </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">SLAC</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> environment;</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> 2) t</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">o expound upon my</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> weekly</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">exit from campus and entry into prison education as a vehicle to advance institutional goals for outreach and social justice;</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> 3) to </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">interrogate </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">prison education</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">e</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" 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class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> and practical strategies</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">developed in a course on Race and Politics in </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">Brazil to </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">de</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">coloni</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">ze the curriculum; and 4) </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">to express the realities of teaching a Black-centered, intersectional course in an </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2 SCXW77385132 BCX0">all-male </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">maximum secu</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">rity prison setting. It was through this practical </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">prison teaching </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">experience that I stretched the limits of my</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">practice of education</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0"> and found a temporary home in which to </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW77385132 BCX0">do so.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW77385132 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":160,"335559740":480}"> </span></p>}, journal={Radical Teacher}, author={Harrington, Jaira}, year={2021}, month={Dec.}, pages={24–30} }