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Education at War: The Fight for Students of Color in America's
Public Schools, attempts to shape educational research and practice
to more explicitly consider the relationship between education,
capitalism and war, and more specifically, its' impact on students
of color. The authors, as a whole, contend that the contemporary
specter of war has become a central way that racism and materialism
become manifested and practiced within education. In particular,
this collection asserts that the contemporary neoliberal
characterization of education and school-based reform is situated
within the global political economy that has facilitated a growth
in the prison and military industrial complex, and simultaneous
divestment in education domestically within the U.S. Education at
War attempts to make research relevant by bringing the tensions
within young people's lives to the fore. The heavy shadow cast by
recent U.S. led wars re-organizes the sites of learning and
teaching nationally, as well as differentially, within specific
sites and upon particular communities. Nonetheless, the examination
of this context is not enough. Rather, we consider how such a
contemporary context can facilitate educational spaces for
communities and youth to grow their vision for a different, and
hopefully a more humanizing future. Thus, the book contributors
will collectively explore how resistance can produce the
opportunity for rich, diverse and transformative learning for
marginalized students and communities. The lives of People of Color
are the forefront of Education at War: The Fight for Students of
Color in America's Public Schools. Whereas there are many attempts
to theorize about the global implications of war, less attention is
paid to the ways that war shapes young lives in the U.S.,
particularly in an educational context. The book addresses the
absence of youth-centered discussions regarding education during a
political context of neoliberalism and war, and provides important
perspectives on which to ground critical discussions among students
and families, education scholars and practitioners, and
policymakers.
California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by
Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of
"Asian America" through the migration and circulation of the arts,
this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects
to understand the rendering of California's imaginary. Here,
"California" is interpreted as both a specific locale and an
identity marker that moves, linking the state's cultural imaginary,
labor, and economy with Asia Pacific, the Americas, and the world.
Together, the works in this collection shift previous models and
studies of the "Golden State" as the embodiment of "frontier
mentality" and the discourse of exceptionality to a translocal,
regional, and archipelagic understanding of place and cultural
production. The poems, visual essays, short stories, critical
essays, interviews, artist statements, and performance text
excerpts featured in this collection expand notions of where
knowledge is produced, directing our attention to the particularity
of California's landscape and labor in the production of arts and
culture. An interdisciplinary collection, California Dreaming
foregrounds "sensing" and "imagining" place, vividly, as it hopes
to inspire further creative responses to the notion of emplacement.
In doing so, California Dreaming explores the possibilities
imagined by and through Asian American arts and culture today,
paving the way for what is yet to be.
On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the
anti-war speech, "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence," in New
York City at the Riverside Church. At the time, the United States
framed its intervention in Vietnam as a mechanism to protect
democracy worldwide. While this supposed defense of democracy raged
on thousands of miles away, social protests for racial equity,
political representation, and an economic livelihood for its most
disenfranchised communities spread across the United States.
Highlighting this contradiction in his anti-war speech, King
presented his doubts regarding the government's ability to
eliminate the materialism, militarism, and racism that built the
nation, a plight that continues today. Written from the
perspectives of education practitioners and scholars who have
personal histories with global war via (settler) colonialism,
immigration, and subsequent disenfranchisement in the United
States, Education at War addresses the vestiges of war that shape
the lives of youth of color. This thought-provoking collection of
essays reveals how the contemporary specter of war has become a
central way that racism and materialism are manifested and
practiced within education. Education at War asserts that the
contemporary neoliberal characterization of education and
school-based reform is situated within the global political economy
that has facilitated growth in the prison and military industrial
complex, and simultaneous divestment from education domestically.
Essays examine anti-war projects across the K-20 education
continuum with chapters from educators who are from and/or work
directly with the communities often pathologized in
"damage-centered" educational discourse. The authors do not just
frame the conditions faced by our communities as state-mediated but
also as collectively resisted. They place war, surveillance, and
carcerality at the center of critical race analysis in education.
Each of the chapters include a pedagogical component, including
lessons and comments for educators and youth workers. In
cultivating this text, the editors have contributed to building a
community of educators, activists, teachers, and scholars who
collectively explore how resistance can produce the opportunity for
rich, diverse, and transformative learning for marginalized
students and communities. Contributors: Suzie M. Abajian, Yousef K.
Baker, Dolores Calderon, Edward R. Curammeng, Chandni Desai, Maryam
S. Griffin, Heather L. Horsley, David Stovall, Clayton Pierce,
Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Sepehr Vakil, Shirin Vossoughi,, Connie
Wun, Miguel Zavala
Recent attacks on Ethnic Studies, revisionist actions in curriculum
content, and anti-immigrant policies are creating a new culture war
in America. This important work lays out the current debates-both
in K-12 and higher education-to uncover the dangers and to offer
solutions. In 2010, HB 2281-a law that bans ethnic studies in
Arizona-was passed; in the same year, Texas whitewashed curriculum
and textbook changes at the K-12 level. Since then, the nation has
seen a rise in the legal and political war on Ethnic Studies,
revisionist actions in curriculum content, and anti-immigrant
policies, creating a new culture war in America. "White" Washing
American Education demonstrates the value and necessity of Ethnic
Studies in the 21st century by sharing the voices of those in the
trenches-educators, students, community activists, and cultural
workers-who are effectively using multidisciplinary approaches to
education. This two-volume set of contributed essays provides
readers with a historical context to the current struggles and
attacks on Ethnic Studies by examining the various cultural and
political "wars" that are making an impact on American educational
systems, and how students, faculty, and communities are impacted as
a result. It investigates specific cases of educational
whitewashing and challenges to that whitewashing, such as Tom
Horne's attack along with the State Board of Education against the
Mexican American studies in the Tucson School District, the
experiences of professors of color teaching Ethnic Studies in
primarily white universities across the United States, and the role
that student activists play in the movements for Ethnic Studies in
their high schools, universities, and communities. Readers will
come away with an understanding of the history of Ethnic Studies in
the United States, the challenges and barriers that Ethnic Studies
scholars and practitioners currently face, and the ways to advocate
for the development of Ethnic Studies within formal and
community-based spaces. Presents an innovative exploration of the
new culture wars that address the various debates and views on
Ethnic Studies that are under attack in American education, both in
grades K-12 and in higher education Provides information and
insights presented by outstanding editors and contributors who are
influential in the field Includes case studies of Ethnic Studies at
risk in higher education as well as personal narratives regarding
the challenges and struggles of Ethnic Studies scholars and
practitioners Suggests solutions for strengthening diverse
curricula in K-12 classrooms and in higher education classrooms
California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by
Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of
"Asian America" through the migration and circulation of the arts,
this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects
to understand the rendering of California's imaginary. Here,
"California" is interpreted as both a specific locale and an
identity marker that moves, linking the state's cultural imaginary,
labor, and economy with Asia Pacific, the Americas, and the world.
Together, the works in this collection shift previous models and
studies of the "Golden State" as the embodiment of "frontier
mentality" and the discourse of exceptionality to a translocal,
regional, and archipelagic understanding of place and cultural
production. The poems, visual essays, short stories, critical
essays, interviews, artist statements, and performance text
excerpts featured in this collection expand notions of where
knowledge is produced, directing our attention to the particularity
of California's landscape and labor in the production of arts and
culture. An interdisciplinary collection, California Dreaming
foregrounds "sensing" and "imagining" place, vividly, as it hopes
to inspire further creative responses to the notion of emplacement.
In doing so, California Dreaming explores the possibilities
imagined by and through Asian American arts and culture today,
paving the way for what is yet to be.
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