Pro-coexistence actions based on dialogue, without taking into account the structural discrimination, poverty, and social and moral exclusion suffered by certain groups, these being the main obstacles to laying the foundations for dialogue under equal conditions. It is functional because it does not question the existing system. On the contrary, it generates discourse and practices that legitimize structural inequalities.
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Methodological Proposals for a Renewal of Antiracist Socio-Educational Action
Maria-Jose Aguilar-Idañez (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) and Daniel Buraschi (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7283-2.ch004
Abstract
Anti-racist socio-educational intervention is not proving effective at combating contemporary racism. Traditional awareness models suffer from serious limitations that prevent them from achieving their stated objectives. In this chapter, these limits are described and explained, based on an analysis of the dominant models implicit in current anti-racist intervention. Second, two new conceptual tools are proposed that are essential to reframe anti-racist action, so that socio-educational intervention is truly able to transform and eliminate moral boundaries. Finally, several operational proposals are presented and described to renew anti-racist socio-educational action from a critical-transformative perspective: critical reflexivity, the decolonization of one's own culture, understanding to transform, the enabling of racialized and discriminated groups, participatory communication, and communicational empowerment.