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The story of how Black and Brown parents, students and members of low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built a movement that spread across the country. In Willful Defiance, Mark R. Warren documents how Black and Brown parents, students, and low-income communities of color organized to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline in their local schools and built an intersectional movement that spread across the country. Examining organizing processes in Mississippi, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other localities, he shows how relatively small groups of community members built the power to win policy changes to reduce suspensions and expulsions by combining deep local organizing with resources from the national movement. As a result, over the course of twenty years, the movement to combat the school-to-prison pipeline resulted in falling suspension rates across the country and began to make gains in reducing police presence in schools, especially in places where there have been sustained organizing and advocacy efforts. In documenting the struggle organizers waged to build national alliances led by community groups and people most impacted by injustice rather than Washington-based professional advocates, Warren offers a new model for movements that operate simultaneously at local, state and national levels, while primarily oriented to support and spread local organizing. In doing so, he argues for the need to rethink national social justice movements as interconnected local struggles whose victories are lifted and spread, In the end, the book highlights lessons from the school-to-prison pipeline movement for organizers, educators, policymakers and a broader public seeking to transform deep-seated and systemic racism in public schools and the broader society.
"Mark Warren's comprehensive case study of the Industrial Areas Foundation is a major contribution to the growing literature on coalition politics. Indeed, it is the best empirical study ever written on multiracial collaboration to address social inequality. Featuring careful and systematic analysis of rich data on local organizing, "Dry Bones Rattling" will be ancinfluential book and is must reading for those committed to revitalizing American democracy through interracial political cooperation."--William Julius Wilson, Harvard University ""Dry Bones Rattling" is timely, important, and inspiring. Timely, because this study of the most successful faith-based movement for social justice in America appears just as faith-based social initiatives have reached the top of the national political agenda. Important, because it is a deeply grounded contribution to the rapidly growing field of social capital theory. Inspiring, because by showing how civic malaise has been reversed in some of the nation's most impoverished, ethnically divided settings, this book should raise the aspirations of democratic reformers. Must reading for social theorists and civic activists."--Robert Putnam, Harvard University, author of "Making Democracy Work" "Mark Warren has written a comprehensive and insightful analysis of a profoundly important community-based movement. I have seen how the Industrial Areas Foundation organizations this book examines have revitalized communities across America, both physically and spiritually. In San Antonio, the city I know best, I watched Communities Organized for Public Service empower poor neighborhoods and give voice to their concerns. Capable new leaders emerged and thecity entered a new era of citizen democracy. "Dry Bones Rattling" provides a compelling eyewitness account of the transformations these organizations bring, showing us a sacred force rooted in human dignity at work."--Henry Cisneros, Chairman and CEO of American CityVista ""Dry Bones Rattling" is an important addition to the literature on community organizations, populist politics, and--more than anything--religion-based politics."--James Morone, Brown University "Original scholarship built on strong ethnographic work, Warren's book is among the best of the outstanding scholarship on the dilemmas of American democracy that has emerged in recent years. As such it will be highly useful to specialists on grassroots movements and on the intersection of religion and politics in American life, as well as broadly useful to political scientists and political sociologists. This is excellent scholarly work on an important political phenomenon that until now has eluded adequate scholarly attention."--Richard L. Wood, University of New Mexico, author of "Faith in Action"
While many white Americans played serious roles in the abolition
movement against slavery and in the civil rights movement of the
fifties and sixties, among other efforts, their stories are not
well known. Perhaps this unawareness is a logical consequence of
the sense that white racism has outweighed antiracism through
history, but if we are interested in the possibilities of social
change, we need to understand both the processes that perpetuate
racism as well as those that lead in the direction of racial
justice. By looking at the stories of these white activists, we can
determine how people who are not themselves victims of
discrimination come to develop a commitment towards racial justice.
While many white Americans played serious roles in the abolition
movement against slavery and in the civil rights movement of the
fifties and sixties, among other efforts, their stories are not
well known. Perhaps this unawareness is a logical consequence of
the sense that white racism has outweighed antiracism through
history, but if we are interested in the possibilities of social
change, we need to understand both the processes that perpetuate
racism as well as those that lead in the direction of racial
justice. By looking at the stories of these white activists, we can
determine how people who are not themselves victims of
discrimination come to develop a commitment towards racial justice.
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