Working from within: Chicana and Chicano activist educators in whitestream schools

摘要

How do people become political activists? How can people navigate between criticism of systemic oppression and membership in the educational environments they criticise? How do activists maintain their idealism within institutions that are structured to stifle dissent? These are some of the many pressing questions addressed in this book. Following Grande's argument that 'mainstream' implies 'white', Urrieta uses the term 'whitestream' in order to 'decenter whiteness as dominant' (p. 181) and to highlight the value of non-whitestream cultural capital. He provides a succinct and clear rationale for the term - not in the text proper, unfortunately, but in an endnote.