Mark Warren

Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out!

Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book features the stories and voices of parents, young people, community organizers and educators describing how they are fighting systemic racism in schools by building a new educational justice movement committed to community-based, high quality,humane and empowering education for all young people"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780807016008
• ISBN-10: 0807016004
• Artikelnr.: 50431916

Autorenporträt

Mark R. Warren is professor of public policy and public affairs at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the founder and cochair of the Urban Research-Based Action Network. The author of three books, including most recently A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform, Warren studies and works with community and youth organizing groups seeking to promote equity and justice in education. David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist and the author of ten books, including four coauthored with his sister, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
INTRODUCTION
Building an Educational Justice Movement
Mark R. Warren
PART ONE: Building the Power for Change: Parent, Youth and Community
Organizing
CHAPTER ONE
“I Can’t Make a Teacher Love My Son”: A Black Parent’s Journey to Racial
Justice Organizing
Zakiya Sankara-Jabar
CHAPTER TWO
#SouthLAParentLove: Redefining Parent Participation in South Los Angeles
Schools
Maisie Chin
CHAPTER THREE
Speaking Up and Walking Out: Boston Students Fight for Educational Justice
Carlos Rojas and Glorya Wornum
CHAPTER FOUR
Fighting for Gender Justice: Girls of Color Assert Their Voice
Kate McDonough and Christina Powell
CHAPTER FIVE
The Freedom to Learn: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline in the
Southwest
Pam Martinez
PART TWO: Building Alliances for Systemic Change
CHAPTER SIX
#FightForDyett: Fighting Back Against School Closings and the Journey 4
Justice
Jitu Brown
CHAPTER SEVEN
There Is No National Without the Local: Grounding the School Discipline
Movement in the Mississippi Delta
Joyce Parker
CHAPTER EIGHT
The School Is the Heart of the Community: Building Community Schools Across
New York City
Natasha Capers
CHAPTER NINE
Fighting for Teachers, Children and Their Parents: Building a Social
Justice Teachers Union
Brandon Johnson
CHAPTER TEN
#EndWarOnYouth: Building a Youth Movement for Black Lives and Educational
Justice
Jonathan Stith
PART THREE: Educators for Justice: Movement Building in Schools, School
Systems & Universities
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Teachers Unite!: Organizing School Communities for Transformative Justice
Sally Lee and Elana “E.M.” Eisen-Markowitz
CHAPTER TWELVE
Can Schools Nurture the Souls of Black and Brown Children?: Combatting the
School-to-Prison Pipeline in Early Childhood Education
Roberta Udoh
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
System Change: Following an Inside-Outside Strategy as a School Board
Member
Mónica García
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Walking into the Community: Community Partnerships as a Catalyst for
Institutional Change in Higher Education
Maureen D. Gillette
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
#schoolismyhustle: Activist Scholars and a Youth Movement to Transform
Education
Vajra Watson
PART FOUR: Intersectional Organizing: Linking Social Movements to
Educational Justice
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Janitors Are Parents Too!: Promoting Parent Advocacy in the Labor Movement
Aida Cardenas and Janna Shadduck-Hernandez
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Same Struggle: Immigrant Rights and Educational Justice
José Calderón
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Organizing Intersectionally: Trans and Queer Youth Fighting for Racial and
Gender Justice
Geoffrey Winder
CONCLUSION
Conclusion: Educational Justice as Catalyst for a New Social Movement
Mark R. Warren
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Notes