Voices for Diversity and Social Justice

Julie Landsman; Rosanna M. Salcedo; Paul C. Gorski

doi:10.5771/9781475807141

Summary

Voices for Diversity and Social Justice: A Literary Education Anthology is an unflinching exploration through poetry, prose, and art of the heart of our educational system—of the segregation, bias, and oppression that are part of the daily lives of so many students and educators. It is also a series of poetical insights into the fights for liberation and resistance at the heart of many of the same students’ and teachers’ lives. The contributors—youth, educators, activists, others—share what it is like to face discrimination, challenge unjust policy, or subvert monotony by cultivating a vibrant, equitable, revolutionary school environment. This is not a prescriptive text, but instead a call to action. It is a call from many literary voices to create schools where social justice is at the core of education. Stunning in its revelations, Voices for Diversity and Social Justice is an anthology by educators and students unafraid to be passionate about what is missing, what is needed, and what is working in order to make that vision a reality.

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Copyright year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-0712-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-0714-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 201
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Chapter One: Diz on the Way to School No access
2. Chapter Two: I Get It No access
3. Chapter Three: Between Worlds No access
4. Chapter Four: How I Came to Poetry No access
5. Chapter Five: This School No access
6. Chapter Six: English as a Second Language at Our Lady of Guadeloupe Church No access
7. Section Questions: Speaking Through the Silence No access
1. Chapter Seven: Telling It Like It Is No access
2. Chapter Eight: Family Matters No access
3. Chapter Nine: The Worst Thing About Being Poor No access
4. Chapter Ten: The Poster Board No access
5. Chapter Eleven: Dress to Impress No access
6. Chapter Twelve: [Untitled] No access
7. Section Questions: Experiencing Poverty No access
1. Chapter Thirteen: What If Cornel West Was Wrong? No access
2. Chapter Fourteen: Ramón’s Truth No access
3. Chapter Fifteen: Girl on Fire No access
4. Chapter Sixteen: Appalachian by Proxy No access
5. Chapter Seventeen: Language, The Truest Tongue No access
6. Chapter Eighteen: talking blocks No access
7. Chapter Nineteen: Skin No access
8. Section Questions: Unleashing Student Voices No access
1. Chapter Twenty: Survival No access
2. Chapter Twenty-one: Star Student No access
3. Chapter Twenty-two: Equations No access
4. Chapter Twenty-three: looking in the mirror in elementary school No access
5. Chapter Twenty-four: The Tower, the Book, and the Girl They Let In No access
6. Chapter Twenty-five: To Lumpia or to Not Lumpia? No access
7. Chapter Twenty-six: The New Girl No access
8. Section Questions: Being the Target No access
1. Chapter Twenty-seven: White Hallways No access
2. Chapter Twenty-eight: First Generation College Blues No access
3. Chapter Twenty-nine: Learning Up Front No access
4. Chapter Thirty: The Way I Am No access
5. Chapter Thirty-one: Independence Day No access
6. Chapter Thirty-two: America No access
7. Chapter Thirty-three: A Cultural Frankenstein No access
8. Chapter Thirty-four: Spirit First, Consequences Second No access
9. Chapter Thirty-five: Forced Out at School No access
10. Chapter Thirty-six: Torn No access
11. Section Questions: Claiming Our Space and Identities No access
1. Chapter Thirty-seven: Testimony No access
2. Chapter Thirty-eight: Seat Them with Princes No access
3. Chapter Thirty-nine: Finding the Strength in the Fragile No access
4. Chapter Forty: Piling On No access
5. Section Questions: Celebrating the Power of Teachers No access
1. Chapter Forty-one: People-Colored Crayons No access
2. Chapter Forty-two: “Red Light, Green Light” No access
3. Chapter Forty-three: Walking Down the Corridor Is Being in Another Country No access
4. Chapter Forty-four: A Visit to the County Special Ed Program No access
5. Chapter Forty-five: Breaking the Ice No access
6. Chapter Forty-six: Chasing Butterflies and Catching Grasshoppers No access
7. Chapter Forty-seven: Breaking Bread No access
8. Section Questions: Reaching Across Difference and Celebrating Diversity’s Richness No access
1. Chapter Forty-eight: How I Learned to Read the Word No access
2. Chapter Forty-nine: Even Kings No access
3. Section Questions: Subversive Teaching and Learning No access