ABSTRACT
Culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) is a critical framework for centering and sustaining Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander communities as these memberships necessarily intersect with gender and sexuality, dis/ability, class, language, land and more. CSP reimagines education not only within the context of centuries of oppression and domination, but critically, draws strength and wisdom from centuries of intergenerational revitalization, resistance and the revolutionary love of our communities in the face of such brutality. CSP positions dynamic cultural dexterity as a necessary good, and sees the outcome of learning as additive, rather than subtractive, as remaining whole rather than framed as broken, as critically enriching strengths rather than replacing deficits. CSP explicitly calls for education,8 including state-sanctioned schooling, to be a site for sustaining the cultural ways of being of communities of color. While there are many consistencies across CSP-minded pedagogues and researchers, these pedagogies take on necessarily different forms across different contexts.
