Vocalizing Silenced Voices White Supremacy, social caste, cultural hegemony, and narratives to overcome trauma and social injustice

"As politics rage within and outside the academy, this book lays bare the conscious and unconscious strategies used by anti-democratic, authoritarian individuals and groups who attempt to silence the voices and actions of social justice advocates, including education, ethnic studies and liberal arts students, faculty, staff, nonprofit workers and community members. The authors identify how whiteness, white supremacy, social caste and other powerful ideologies, interwoven with socio-economic structures, maintain gross inequities. They provide knowledge that is essential for the foundational work of pre-service and practicing teachers and the above actors, who struggle to meet the needs of their constituencies. I recommend this book and the dialogue to which it contributes about how we can build a more critically conscious and structurally just society." Theresa Montano Professor, Chicana/o Studies, California State University Northridge.