ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how one course aimed to serve as a space of resistance for challenging a racist, patriarchal, corporate university system. It centers narratives from the instructor who identifies as a cisgender gay man of color, and two students, a second-year, able-bodied, cisgender, heterosexual biracial woman, and a fourth-year, able-bodied, cisgender, heterosexual White man. The chapter provides discussion and implications for instructors. It outlines a few pedagogical tools used to set the tone of the course and to explore students’ identities, allowing them to get to know each other, and providing a venue for them to talk about power and privilege. Radical classrooms provide an equitable opportunity for all students to engage, learn, share, and begin imagining solutions to reconstructing a more just world. A system of perpetuating Whiteness reinforces racial inequalities and neoliberalism accrues various forms of capital for White elites, thereby reinforcing the privileges and benefits of Whiteness.
