ABSTRACT
Collaborating with diverse thinkers to work toward a greater understanding of the dynamics of race, gender, and class is essential for those of us who want to move beyond one-dimensional ways of thinking, being, and living. My collaboration with philosopher Ron Scapp is one of the relationships of solidarity both in friendship and intellectual endeavor that enables us to have a more expansive view of the world and the culture we live within. Both Ron and I see our teaching as always connected to struggles for social justice. We have relied on one another for support, critique, and innovation in our life and work. We turn toward one another for critical feedback, whether it is a discussion of the role of imagination in teaching or more personal decisions like career changes and the struggle to stay with the right livelihood.
