Racial and Pedagogical Oppression

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This paper discusses the works of three significant individuals who have contributed to the development of the civil rights movement and educational reform in America. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X served as bastions and role models of the movement against racial prejudice and discrimination against black Americans. Their contributions to the movement are discussed by an analysis of their speeches seeking the black Americans' emancipation from the social bondage of racial prejudice. Paulo Freire, meanwhile, discusses the oppressive nature of the educational system by conceptualizing a framework, which he terms as the "banking concept of education". The paper presents a discussion of each discourse written by these three individuals, explaining how each discourse contributed to increasing social awareness among the American citizenry during the period and helped create social changes that ultimately characterize the pluralist kind of society that American society is at present.

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"The 1960s marked an unprecedented development of ideologies and social movements, which aimed to provide alternative perspectives and solution to the increasing problem of civil disorder and restlessness among various sectors of the society, particularly those differing in race, gender, age, and even educational attainment and social class. Two of the most prominent movements that have been formed and developed during this period are the civil rights movement and the educational reform. The civil rights movement that has become popular and powerful during this period traces its roots from the issue of racial discrimination against black Americans. Educational reform, on the other hand, was spurred from new ideologies that came along with the dominance of the new socialist movement, which looks at the oppressive nature of the current social order extant in the educational system of America at the time."

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