Community as Rebellion

A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color

By: Lorgia García Peña

Narrated by: Lorgia García Peña

Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much like other women scholars of color, Lorgia Garcia Peña has struggled against the colonizing, racializing, classist, and unequal structures that perpetuate systemic violence within universities. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections, the author invites listeners-in particular Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women-to engage in liberatory practices of boycott, abolition, and radical community-building to combat the academic world's tokenizing and exploitative structures.

Garcia Peña argues that the classroom is key to freedom-making in the university, urging teachers to consider activism and social justice as central to what she calls "teaching in freedom": a progressive form of collective learning that prioritizes the subjugated knowledge, silenced histories, and epistemologies from the Global South and Indigenous, Black, and brown communities. By teaching in and for freedom, we not only acknowledge the harm that the university has inflicted on our persons and our ways of knowing since its inception, but also create alternative ways to be, create, live, and succeed through our work.

©2022 Lorgia García Peña (P)2023 Tantor

Heartfelt and lovely.

I admire the authors courage and fortifier for writing this book in the midst of attack and disappointment. That is truly not easy to do. This books is required reading for anyone working in Ethnic Studies or liberatory pedagogies today in any context.

Thank you

Beautiful.
Heartfelt, real, and with excellent research.
Applicable beyond academia as well.
I've already recommended it to everyone I know.