Now more than ever, we need to teach the truth about history. This volume assembles a team of critical social studies Scholars of Color who share their nightmares and dreams for the future. The authors engage critical race theory and its many branches and offshoots to better understand the permanence of racism in the teaching of social studies.
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Contents
Foreword Tyrone C. Howard ix
Introduction Amanda E. Vickery and Noreen Naseem Rodríguez 1
PART I: A Dream Deferred
1. Beyond the Guise of Racial Neutrality: A CRT Analysis of Critical Moments and the Social Studies Profession 23
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Christopher L. Busey
2. What's Left Unsaid: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of NCSS Position Statements 35
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Kristen E. Duncan and Natasha Murray-Everett
3. Steady at the Bottom of the Well: Anti-Blackness and Social Studies Historiographies 47
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ArCasia D. James-Gallaway
Part II: Racial Realities in Classroom Spaces
4. Unsettling Scenes and the Geographies of Racialized, Dis/abled Childhoods 59
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Tran N. Templeton and Maggie Harvey
5. Counterstorytelling and Racial Inquiry in Early Childhood Social Studies 69
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Anna Falkner
6. The Global Color-Line: Critical Race Theory and Global Citizenship Education in Conversation and in Classrooms 79
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Hanadi Shatara and Esther June Kim
7. Being in Difference, Together: Making the Classroom an Academic Home Through Critical Race Theory 89
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Tadashi Dozono
Part III: Possibilities of Praxis
8. Another Social Studies Is Possible: Challenging the Violence of Organized Forgetting Through Counternarratives 101
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Ramon Vasquez
9. Deconstructing Social Studies Classrooms: Youth Participatory Action Research as a Process of Radical Space-Making, Empowerment, and Imagination 111
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Eva García, Amina Smaller, and Ryan Oto
10. Enacting Cultural Citizenship Education for Black Liberation: A Dream for Social Studies Education 120
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Denisha Jones
11. Nurturing Seeds and Dreams of Freedom: Ethnic Studies as the Practice of Humanization, Solidarity, and Love 130
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Christina Shiao-Mei Villarreal
12. Soñando en/del Sur Latinx: Letting the Youth Disrupt Narratives of Division 140
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Jesús A. Tirado and Timothy Monreal
Part IV: Dreaming of Social Studies Futures
13. Indigenous Futurities and the Responsibilities of Social Studies 153
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Turtle Island Social Studies Collective
14. Teaching the Fullness of Black Women's Lives in Social Studies Education 164
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Tiffany Mitchell Patterson
15. Who's Afraid of Queer/Quare Social Studies? 174
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Jon M. Wargo
16. From a Curriculum of Violence to a Curriculum of Humanity: An AsianCrit Critique and Dream of Social Studies 182
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Sohyun An
17. On the Other Side of a Dream: Community, Love, Joy, and Freedom—Economics as It Could Be 192
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Neil Shanks and Delandrea Hall
Conclusion Amanda E. Vickery and Noreen Naseem Rodríguez 202
Afterword Cinthia Salinas 210
Notes 212
About the Contributors 214
Index 219
