Critical Hope, Collective Joy and Kinship Pedagogy
Resources
Note to Educators: Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete by Jeffrey Duncan-Andrade
Growing Roses from the Concrete, TEDx Lecture by Duncan-Andrade
Paulo Friere quote from Pedagogy of Hope: “The idea that hope alone will transform the world, and action undertaken in that kind of naïveté, is an excellent route to hopelessness, pessimism, and fatalism. But the attempt to do without hope, in the struggle to improve the world, as if that struggle could be reduced to calculated acts alone, or a purely scientific approach, is a frivolous illusion. (Freire, 1997, p. 8).”
The Book of Joy by 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams
Alexandre Dumas quote from Le Comte de Monte-Cristo: “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”
The Joy of Movement by Kelly McGonigal
Quote from Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mother’s Garden; “And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see: or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
All My Relations Podcast: Black Native History with Dr. Tiya Miles
All My Relations Podcast: Black Native Kinship with Amber Starks
Quote from Daniel Heath Justice in Fear of a Changeling Moon: A Rather Queer Tale from a Cherokee Hillbilly by Daniel Heath Justice: “It’s about being beautiful to ourselves and others. And such loving self-awareness is a hard thing to come by in a world that sees Aboriginal peoples as historical artifacts, degraded vagrants or grieving ghosts. To take joy in our bodies–and those bodies in relation to others–is to strike out against five-hundred-plus years of disregard, disrespect and dismissal.”
Presentation Music: There’s a Light by Beautiful Chorus
Presentation was adapted from the presentation Critical Hope & Decentering Whiteness given at the University of San Francisco in the Spring 2021 course Whiteness, Power and Privilege by Katie Delaney, Sarah Kerlow, Nicole Martinez, Brian Ng, Paul David Terry on March 26, 2021.
