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This is a critical dialogue between graduate student and activists in the discipline of sociology. Critical approaches to the essential question of critical race studies are discussed and evaluated in terms of their ability to develop a theory and praxis for changing the structural and cultural inequalities that constitute the enduring legacy of the colonial project and slavery. Conventional sociological methodologies as well as combative epistemologies and pedagogies, suffer from an inability to inform and be informed by real world movements for social justice and thus are limited in their applicability beyond the ivory tower.Through a Freirean critical dialogue the possibility for a human method of mobilization emerges that has the potential for aiding with the liberation struggles of all oppressed peoples. The authors hope that this dialogue will be taken up by other peoples in other places to further their quest for social justice.

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critical race theory critical pedagogy praxis social justice social movements

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A People’s Method(ology) A Dialogical Approach

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