ABSTRACT
In 1989, feminist cultural critic and theorist Elizabeth Ellsworth wrote a seminal critique of critical pedagogy called "Why Does not This Feel Empowering Working through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy". The scholarly work has drawn on Ellsworth's criticisms to make similar theoretical claims about critical pedagogy's "racial blindspots". In another highly publicized news interview with a local television reporter, a recently fired Latino male school principal at "Critical Pedagogy High" (CRT) takes aim at the radicals at Professor Turner's "radical university" who completely undermined his effort to offer a true social justice curriculum to his mostly Black and Brown students from inner-city Detroit. Many contemporary educational theorists have adopted a highly interdisciplinary approach to the study of critical pedagogy. The research into the critical race and womanist/Black feminist traditions which draws from critical pedagogy in significant ways. Black feminism/womanism with its outwardly political stance against racism, sexism, and classism closely resembles both critical pedagogy and critical race pedagogy in significant ways.
