1. Oppression, Resistance, and
Advocacy in the Classroom
Cira M. Montoya, Andrea Crespo, and Paul
LaPrade

2. Productive Resistance:
Equality for Domestic and
Immigrant Workers
Cira M. Montoya

3. Exploitation and Abuse Among
Domestic Workers
 25 % of foreign-born women are domestic workers
(Kaufka, 2003) and the majority of them are women of
color.
 Surveys illustrate how migrant and domestic workers
told stories of “how they did not know where to turn in
America when they faced workplace abuse, were
uncertain of their rights, and had few options” (Robinson,
Dryden, and Gomez, 2012).
 Results of the same survey reported that 60% of
nonwhite immigrant workers endured abuse because
they needed the money, and 33% reported that they
endured abuse because they did not understand their
legal rights (Robinson, Dryden, and Gomez, 2012).

4. Exploitation and
Misconceptions of Immigrant
Workers
 A dairy farm survey conducted in 2008 reported that
employers drew racial boundaries by concluding that
immigrant workers were unambitious workers,
justifying the pooling of immigrant workers in low-level
positions on dairy farms:
 “I’ve never had anybody that seemed to want work and
just milk cows and be satisfied with that, like the Mexicans
do…They are just not as interested in being the top dog.
They are happy to have a job, and milking cows is fairly
easy…They don’t have the ambition to drive tractors like
American guys, who want to be in the tractor all the time”
(Harrison & Lloyd, 2013).

5. Productive Resistance

7. Advocacy
 Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services, Inc. (DMRS)
2400 E. Yandell, El Paso, TX 79903
Phone: 915-532-3975
Website: http://www.dmrs-ep.org/
 Las Americas Immigration Advocacy Center
1500 East Yandell
El Paso, TX 79902
Phone: 915-544-5126
Website: http://las-americas.org/
 Paso del Norte Civil Rights Project
1317 Rio Grande El Paso, TX 79902 Phone: 915-532-3799
pdn@texascivilrightsproject.org

8. Oppression and Resistance in
the Classroom
Andrea Crespo

9. Talking about Race,
Learning about Racism
Beverly Daniel Tatum

10. “The FEAR of being
perceived as RACIST or
refusal to BELIEVE oneself
or one’s family/ancestors as
being RACIST”(Beverly
Tatum, 1992.)
“ACCEPTED by WHITES”
(Beverly Tatum, 1992.)

11.  Is there a correlation between racism
and/or prejudice and a student’s
resistance to oppression-related course
content?
 What are some of the racial identity
development theories used in regards to
students that show resistance towards
oppression-related topics, and how do
these theories affect the students?
 Can instances of student resistance to
oppression-related course content be
avoided and/or eliminated?
 Are American college students impacted
by racism on campus and in the
classroom, and if so what actions do they
take in relation to this?

12. “I look at my environment and
wonder, how will it not be?”
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBN6Wm-uiBU
Start Time: 12:00, End Time: 15:28

13. RACIAL IDENTITY
DEVELOPMENT
THEORIES

14. 57 people
(90 %)
6 people
(10 %)
Have you ever seen or experienced
any form of racism on campus?
Yes
No
MY RESEARCH

15. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO
DO TO FIGHT AGAINST
RACISM AND OPPRESSION
IN THE CLASSROOM?

16. Oppression, Resistance, and
the Writing Classroom
Paul LaPrade

20. I rebel—therefore we exist.
--Albert Camus

24. Rebellion on the Sentence Level
 I developed a type of brainstorming where I think
about the topic and I free write whatever comes
to my mind. I write all over the paper and don’t
exactly stay within the lines of the paper… This
type of brainstorming lets me “rebel” against
writing. It goes against the more organized
types of brainstorming that are mapping or
outlining. This brainstorming strategy brings me
back to the days I enjoyed free writing and helps
make academic writing a little easier.

26. Image URLs
 2: http://tweetandmeet.com/category/future
 3: http://www.amazon.com/Pedagogy-Oppressed-30th-Anniversary-
Edition/dp/0826412769
 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia
 5: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/2-albert-camus-1913-1960-
granger.html
 6: http://unschoolers.org/unschooling-thoughts/what-about-socialization-
part-1/
 7: https://law.uoregon.edu/ol/autumn2012/pursuing-sports-law/sports-
balls/
 10: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing