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Hannah M,

I like a lot the way you look at curriculum as potentially the very material for transformative teaching and learning and on the other a potential 'cultural invasion.'  To take this a next step, while it's certainly highly relevant that students' own 'role in the world' be explicitly evident in the curriculum, an additional way to come at this has to do with approaching any aspects of curriculum through the lens of the particular students' role in the world; for example, what would it look like to teach those books with white characters from a perspective of a Latino/a school community?  Of course, we need both these approaches to curriculum to do the kind of work you (and Freire) are talking about...