Full Description
Demonstrates how critical race theory can be useful in real-world situations.
Rooted in the initial struggle of community members who staged a successful hunger strike to secure a high school in their Chicago neighborhood, David Omotoso Stovall's Born Out of Struggle focuses on his first-hand participation in the process to help design the school. Offering important lessons about how to remain accountable to communities while designing a curriculum with a social justice agenda, Stovall explores the use of critical race theory to encourage its practitioners to spend less time with abstract theories and engage more with communities that make a concerted effort to change their conditions. Stovall provides concrete examples of how to navigate the constraints of working with centralized bureaucracies in education and apply them to real-world situations.
Contents
Foreword
Patricia Maria Buenrostro and Carolina Gaete
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Responsibility to the Word: Into the Work of Putting Our Theories to Practice
1. Hunger Strike: History, Community Struggle, and Political Gamesmanship
2. To Create a School: Uneasy Partnerships with the Central Office
3. Counterstory as Praxis: Confronting Success and Failure on the Design Team
4. Paper Proposals Do Not Equal Real Life: Race Praxis and High School Creation
5. Educational Debt Relief: Classroom Struggles, Critical Race Praxis, and the Politics of School
6. Struggle, Failure, and Reflection in the First Cycle (2003-2009): Practical Lessons in Creating a School
7. Always on the Run: School Struggle in Perpetuity
Epilogue
Glossary of Acronyms
Bibliography
Index
