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Racial Justice and Nonviolence Education - Building the Beloved Community, One Block at a Time (Paperback)
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Racial Justice and Nonviolence Education - Building the Beloved Community, One Block at a Time (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
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This book examines the role that community-based educators in
violence-affected cities play in advancing Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.'s radical nonviolent vision for racial and social justice. This
work argues that nonviolence education can help communities build
capacity to disrupt and transform cycles of violence by recognizing
that people impacted by violence are effective educators and vital
knowledge producers who develop unique insights into racial
oppression and other forms of systemic harm. This book focuses on
informal education that takes place beyond school walls, a type of
education that too often remains invisible and undervalued in both
civil society and scholarly research. It draws on thousands of
hours of work with the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence (CTCN), a
grassroots organization that presents an ideal case study of the
implementation of King's core principles of nonviolence in
21st-century urban communities. Stories of educators' life-changing
educational encounters, their successes and failures, and their
understanding of the six principles of Kingian nonviolence animate
the text. Each chapter delves into one of the six principles by
introducing the reader to the lives of these educators, providing a
rich analysis of how educators teach each principle, and sharing
academic resources for thinking more deeply about each principle.
Against the backdrop of today's educational system, in which
reductive and caricatured treatments of King are often presented
within the formal classroom, CTCN's work outside of the classroom
takes a fundamentally different approach, connecting King's
thinking around nonviolence principles to working for racial
justice in cities deeply impacted by violence. This book will be of
much interest to students of conflict resolution, race studies,
politics and education studies, as well as to practitioners in the
field.
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