Making The Table: Black Women Podcast

Ep 04: Xipe Totec Journey of Transformation


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Concluding their Radical Pedagogy as Praxis course leads to a deep reflection of Mexican American Studies aspects. Paris, Thimery, Jasmine, and Sunny discuss integration, power structures, togetherness, and hope for the future through Xipe Totec (transformation).

Nahui Ollin is the Mexican Indigenous epistemology representing the "four movements." within the Aztec calendar and its physical, spatial, scientific, and philosophical meanings. The four principles are Tezcatlipoca, introspection, Quetzalcoatl, beautiful knowledge, Huitzilopochtli, Will, and Xipe Totec, transformation. (Arce 2017).

References: 

Camangian, P. R. (2015). Teach Like Lives Depend on It. Urban Education, 50(4), 424–453. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085913514591

Darder, A. (2002). Reinventing Paulo Freire: A Pedagogy Of Love. Westview Press.

Hooks, B. (2003). Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope. Psychology Press.

Symposium UNESCO-DCMÉT 2021. (2021, April 21). Antonia Darder [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxhBVKG6tF4

Tatum, B. D. (2021). Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. Penguin UK.

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Making The Table: Black Women PodcastBy Sunny Brown, Paris Griffin, Jasmine Harris, Thimery Wimmer