Full 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.
Contents
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, Anjalé 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 Mislán 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. Muñoz 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
