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Toward a Filipino Critical Pedagogy: Exposure Programs to the Philippines and the Politicization of Melissa Roxas

2014; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/jaas.2014.0004

1097-2129

Michael Viola,

Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

The manuscript critically evaluates the life experiences and politicization of Filipino American activist and torture survivor, Melissa Roxas. The article explores how her politicization offers perspective to a contemporary Filipino American activist formation that views the eradication of neocolonial conditions in the Philippines as an intertwined political project in confronting unjust social relations constraining their collective human potential within the United States. Utilizing the interdisciplinary fields of Asian American studies and critical pedagogy, the article demonstrates how Roxas’s educational experiences through her exposure programs to the Philippines animate what the author terms a Filipino Critical (FilCrit) pedagogy. The manuscript outlines the qualities of such an emancipatory pedagogy and underscores the neocolonial global relations under which it is fashioned.