The frames of reference that reflect a simplified and schematic construction of reality that serves to explain it, providing a general referential outline that unreflectively guides our actions. The implicit models that underlie any anti-racist action primarily depend on and are determined by the interrelation of three elements: how racism is defined and, in particular, what its main causes are; what strategies are deemed most legitimate for dealing with the problem; and how the people involved are defined, and, specifically, what roles and statuses are assigned to them.
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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.