ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I draw on the work of Freire (1993) to illustrate my personal experience of the Oppressed-Oppressor relationship that I faced at one particular moment in my life as a Black teacher educator working at a predominantly White university in the Midwest. I discuss how White university authorities used neoliberal frameworks to position me to be a non-consenting leader in a controversial alternative-licensure program that ghettoized urban education. I extend on Freire’s idea of liberation in the context of this neoliberal space to show the progress I made against the barricades of structural inequalities.
