Rise Up!
Activism as Education
Published on 1. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
348 pages
978-1-61186-324-6 (ISBN)
Description
We live at a time when the need for resistance has come front and center to international consciousness. Rise Up! Activism as Education works to advance theory and practice-oriented understandings of multiple forms of and relationships between racial justice activism and diverse and transnational educational contexts. Here contributors provide detailed accounts and examinations-historical and contemporary, local and international-of active resistance efforts aimed at transforming individuals, institutions, and communities to dismantle systems of racial domination. They explore the ways in which racial justice activism serves as public education and consciousness-raising and a form of education and resistance from those engaged in the activism. The text makes a case for activism as an educational concept that enables organizers and observers to gain important learning outcomes from on-the-ground perspectives as it explores racial justice activism, specifically in the context of community and campus activism, intersectional activism, and Black diasporic liberation. This volume is an essential handbook for preparing both students and activists to effectively resist.
Reviews / Votes
"Around the world, university students of color have tired of fraudulent political discourses of racialized normativity that have violently betrayed subaltern dreams of justice. In response, they are rising to resist and challenge the destructive impact and persistence of racialized and economic subjugation on their lives and their communities. Anchored in the critical power of a Black feminist tradition, Rise Up! Activism as Education engages this reality not only through incisive critique and analysis of contemporary issues but also by advancing a much-needed call to action-if we are to genuinely dismantle and reinvent the oppressive conditions of education and society that defy our liberation."-Antonia Darder, Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education, University of Johannesburg "RiseUp! Activism as Education expresses the ideas and aspirations of a new generation of student and scholar activists who feel compelled to wake up, stand up, step up, and speak up. It presents firsthand accounts from the front lines of struggle that delineate the work of an outpouring of creative and critical collaborations among people who refuse the unlivable destinies intended for them as a first step for forging new democratic practices and possibilities."
-George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61186-324-6 (9781611863246)
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Persons
Amalia Dache is an Afro-Cuban American scholar who is an Assistant Professor at Penn Graduate School of Education at University of Pennsylvania.
Stephen John Quaye is an Associate Professor in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at Ohio State University and is the past president of ACPA: College Student Educators International. His research focuses on engaging in dialogues about difficult issues, student and scholar activism, and strategies for healing from racial battle fatigue.
Chris Linder is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy at the University of Utah, where she studies sexual violence and student activism through a power-conscious, historical lens.
Keon M. McGuire is an Assistant Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education at Arizona State University. Drawing from Africana frameworks, he examines how race, gender, and religion shape minoritized college students' identities and the ways they experience and resist racism, sexism, and heteronormativity.
Stephen John Quaye is an Associate Professor in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at Ohio State University and is the past president of ACPA: College Student Educators International. His research focuses on engaging in dialogues about difficult issues, student and scholar activism, and strategies for healing from racial battle fatigue.
Chris Linder is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy at the University of Utah, where she studies sexual violence and student activism through a power-conscious, historical lens.
Keon M. McGuire is an Assistant Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education at Arizona State University. Drawing from Africana frameworks, he examines how race, gender, and religion shape minoritized college students' identities and the ways they experience and resist racism, sexism, and heteronormativity.
Content
CONTENTS
Foreword, by David Omotoso Stovall
Preface
Introduction
PART 1. Community and Campus Resistance
Vignette. Resistance Matters, Maxwell C. Little
Vignette. A Resistance Journey in Higher Education, Storm Ervin
Youth Participatory Action Research as Praxis: The Importance of Shared Power among Youth and Adults to Counter Systemic Racism, Anjale Welton and Melanie Bertrand
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Lessons Learned through Art, Activism, and Dialogue, Durell M. Callier
We Were Tired of Talking: The Catalyst for the Mobilizing Anger Collective, Dominique C. Hill, Mahauganee D. Shaw Bonds, and Stephen John Quaye
Defining the Struggle: Epistemological Explorations of Social Geography and Digital Space in Ferguson, Amalia Dache and Cristina Mislan
Peer Pedagogies, Communities of Memory, and Occupying the Florida Capitol, Charles H. F. Davis III
PART 2. Intersectional Activism
Vignette. University Activism and the Central Role of Black Womyn, Abigail Hollis
Undocumented and Unafraid, Queer, Trans, and Unashamed: How Undocuqueer Immigrants Are Redefining the Traditional Classroom, Jesus Cisneros
The Coalitional Factors of Student Activism: How Student Coalitions Struggle to Move beyond Diversity Logics, Jalil B. Mustaffa and Oscar J. Mayorga
Nuanced Activism: A Matrix of Resistance, Terah J. Stewart and Brittany M. Williams
Activism, Immigration, and Graduate School: Letters of Hope and Solidarity, Susana M. Munoz and Angelica Velazquillo
PART 3. Black Diasporic Liberation
Vignette. Threads of Global Political Consciousness, Jonathan L. Butler
Locked in the Shadows: Chicago's Black Community College Campus Movement, Fredrick Douglass Dixon
Black Solidarity Matters, Ifeyinwa Onyenekwu
The Role of the University in Building a Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanism: Reconstituting Transnational Solidarity for Liberation, Brian Kamanzi
Contributors
Foreword, by David Omotoso Stovall
Preface
Introduction
PART 1. Community and Campus Resistance
Vignette. Resistance Matters, Maxwell C. Little
Vignette. A Resistance Journey in Higher Education, Storm Ervin
Youth Participatory Action Research as Praxis: The Importance of Shared Power among Youth and Adults to Counter Systemic Racism, Anjale Welton and Melanie Bertrand
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Lessons Learned through Art, Activism, and Dialogue, Durell M. Callier
We Were Tired of Talking: The Catalyst for the Mobilizing Anger Collective, Dominique C. Hill, Mahauganee D. Shaw Bonds, and Stephen John Quaye
Defining the Struggle: Epistemological Explorations of Social Geography and Digital Space in Ferguson, Amalia Dache and Cristina Mislan
Peer Pedagogies, Communities of Memory, and Occupying the Florida Capitol, Charles H. F. Davis III
PART 2. Intersectional Activism
Vignette. University Activism and the Central Role of Black Womyn, Abigail Hollis
Undocumented and Unafraid, Queer, Trans, and Unashamed: How Undocuqueer Immigrants Are Redefining the Traditional Classroom, Jesus Cisneros
The Coalitional Factors of Student Activism: How Student Coalitions Struggle to Move beyond Diversity Logics, Jalil B. Mustaffa and Oscar J. Mayorga
Nuanced Activism: A Matrix of Resistance, Terah J. Stewart and Brittany M. Williams
Activism, Immigration, and Graduate School: Letters of Hope and Solidarity, Susana M. Munoz and Angelica Velazquillo
PART 3. Black Diasporic Liberation
Vignette. Threads of Global Political Consciousness, Jonathan L. Butler
Locked in the Shadows: Chicago's Black Community College Campus Movement, Fredrick Douglass Dixon
Black Solidarity Matters, Ifeyinwa Onyenekwu
The Role of the University in Building a Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanism: Reconstituting Transnational Solidarity for Liberation, Brian Kamanzi
Contributors