Lessons from an Activist Intellectual provides examples of how an academician can combine the roles of teacher, researcher, and activist with a community-based critical pedagogy for democracy and empowerment. This book discusses the interconnections made between Jose Calderon's pedagogy and his history as an immigrant, student, social movement leader, researcher, professor, and community organizer. At the same time, it provides examples of an interactive, intercultural, and interdisciplinary pedagogy that involves both students and community participants as both teachers and learners in social change projects. This style of pedagogy has particular salience for historically excluded individuals from diverse racial, class, gender, and sexuality backgrounds, for whom the educational experience can be either an alienating or empowering experience.
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Inclusion or Exclusion: One Immigrant's Experience of Cultural and Structural Barriers to Power Sharing and Unity By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 2. Lessons from an Activist Intellectual: Participatory Research, Teaching, and Learning for Social Change By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 3. Latinos and Ethnic Conflict in Suburbia: The Case of Monterey Park By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 4. Language Struggles in a Changing California Community By Jose Zapata Calderon and John Horton Chapter 5. How the English Only Initiative Passed in California By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 6. "Hispanic" and "Latino": The Viability of Categories for Panethnic Unity By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 7. Situational Identity of Suburban Mexican American Politicians in a Multi-Ethnic Community By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 8. Multi-Ethnic Coalition Building in a Diverse School District By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 9. Doing Sociology: Connecting the Classroom Experience with a Multi-Ethnic School District By Jose Zapata Calderon and Betty Farrell Chapter 10. Partnership in Teaching and Learning: Combining Critical Pedagogy with Civic Engagement and Diversity By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 11. A Multicultural and Critical Perspective on Teaching through Community: A Dialogue with Jose Calderon of Pitzer College By Sandra Enos Chapter 12. Organizing Immigrant Workers: Action Research and Strategies in the Pomona Day Labor Center By Jose Zapata Calderon, Suzanne F. Foster, and Silvia L. Rodriguez Chapter 13. Immigration Raids in the Inland Empire: A Historical Pattern and Its Responses By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 14. Linking Critical Democratic Pedagogy, Multiculturalism, and Service Learning to a Project-Based Approach By Jose Zapata Calderon and Gilbert R. Cadena Chapter 15. Civic Engagement: A Tool for Building Democracy By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 16. Perspective-Taking as a Tool for Building Democratic Societies By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 17. Latin@s and Social Movements in the Obama Years By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 18. One Activist Intellectual's Experience in Surviving and Transforming the Academy By Jose Zapata Calderon Chapter 19. The Commonalities in Our Past Transform Pedagogy for the Future By Jose Zapata Calderon
