Description
Book SynopsisSituated at the intersection of race and civics, this volume discusses how communities of color interpret and enact civics both within and beyond the classroom. Chapters focus on historical and contemporary topics ranging from issues facing Asian immigrant communities to the Black Lives Matter at School curriculum.
Table of ContentsContents (Tentative)
Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Current Realities of Civic Education: Perspectives from the Margins
1. Emancipatory Civic Education for Black Students: An Action-Oriented Literature Review
Erica Kelley
2. "Have We Been Civically Educated to Seize the Present Moment?": Two Black Social Educators' Sense-Making of Civic Education
Carla-Ann Brown, Rasheeda West, and Elizabeth Yeager Washington
3. Civics and Latinidad: Letters to the Past With Hopes for the Future
Jesús Tirado, Gabriel Rodriguez, Tim Monreal, and Tommy Ender
4. "I Understand Both of Them. But Nobody Understands Me!": Civic Dissonances Among Arab-Palestinian Students in Israel
Aline Muff and Aviv Cohen
Part II: Civics Embodied in Communities of Color
5. It's Been Here All Along: Integrating Local Stories of Struggle into Civics Discourses
Asif Wilson, ArCasia D. James-Gallaway, and Sabryna Groves
6. #FreeThemAll: Civic Action through Southeast Asian Community Defense Digital Toolkits
Van Anh Tran
7. More Than Talk: Youth Poets' Civic Action and How Youth Spoken Word Prepares Minoritized Youths as Civic Actors
Camea Davis
Part III: Possibilities for Civic Education
8. Black Feminist Pedagogy for Anti-Racist Civics
Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Natasha C. Murray-Everett, and Crystal Simmons
9. "Responsible, Capable, and Whole Human Beings": The Value and Necessity of Indigenous Civics
Leilani Sabzalian and Michelle M. Jacob
10. "It Didn't Mean 'Me' When It Said 'We'": Counterstories as Pedagogy When Citizenship is Not Guaranteed
Brittany Jones
11. The Black Lives Matter at School Guiding Principles: Fostering Black Cultural Citizenship Through Critical Civic Empathy
Denisha Jones and Sarah A. Mathews
Afterword
Endnotes
Index
About the Editor
