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Creating Community Safety from Racialized Policing Using Contextual Fluidity, an Emerging Practice Model for Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy Embracing Cultural Diversity centeringmargins

This syllabus will lay the groundwork for creating community safety using contextual fluidity1 amid the increasing criminalization of care, cultures of violence, and on- going genocide. It will generate discussion centering margins and inspire those who resist being excluded, oppressed, and live under the constant threat of violence. Tatum states that a subordinate group has to focus on survival in a situation of unequal power2 . Borrowing from black abolition feminist scholar Andrea Ritchie, movements against police violence should promote “…nurturing values, visions, and practices”. 3 Frieres underlying message of conscientization in Pedagogy of the Oppressed is that it is everyones responsibility to respond to the situation positively and thoughtfully.4

Texts on Contextual Fluidity:


  1. Nelson, C.H, and Dennis H. McPherson. 2004. Contextual Fluidity: an emerging practice model for helping. n.p.: 2004. ↩︎

  2. Tatum, Beverly Daniel. "Chapter 2: The Complexity of Identity."; In Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, 18. n.p.: 2002. ↩︎

  3. Ritchie, Police Violence, 239. ↩︎

  4. Friere, Pedagogy, 6. ↩︎