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Black lives matter at school : an uprising for educational justice
Title:
Black lives matter at school : an uprising for educational justice
Author:
Jones, Denisha (Denisha Natasha), editor.
ISBN:
9781642592702
Physical Description:
xv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents:
Making Black Lives Matter at School / Black Lives Matter at School: historical perspectives / How one elementary school sparked a movement to make Black Students' Lives Matter / From Philly with love: Black Lives Matter at School goes national / Organizing the national curriculum / MapSO Freedom School and the statewide and national Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action Organizing / Letter in solidarity with Black Lives Matter at School -- Black Lives Matter to the Chicago Teachers Union: an interview with Jennifer Johnson / Pushing our union to do antiracist work: Los Angeles Teachers Union tackles racial justice / Sample union endorsements -- The struggle for union support in New York City: an interview with Myrie / Successes and challenges garnering state and local union support in Howard County, Maryland: an interview with Erika Strauss Chavarria / Seattle educators' lesson plan for city officials : defund the police and spend the money on social programs and education! / Defending the Boston Teachers Union from the Boston police -- Our schools need abolitionist, not reformers / NYC teachers bring the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action to the early years / How to talk to young children about the Black Lives Matter guiding principles / Bringing the team along : when solidarity leads to progress / Centering the youngest Black children : an interview with Takiema Bunche-Smith / Organizing the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action in New Jersey : an interview with Raquel James-Goodman / This is my education : bringing the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action to an African American immersion school in Milwaukee / Frequently asked questions about the Week of Action -- Higher education organizing for the Week of Action : an interview with Anthony Dandridge and Kiersten Greene / White educators for Black lives / Solidarity with migrant families at the border -- The Week of Action goes from Philadelphia schools to higher education : an interview with Dana Morrison / The Black Lives Matter at School pedagogy : affirming Black lives, resisting neoliberal reform, and reimagining education for liberation / Black Lives Matter at School Year of Purpose statement -- Not just in February! reflection questions to make Black Lives Matter every day in your classroom / Hire more Black teachers now : a research statement from Black Lives Matter at School and Journey for Justice -- They don't know the half / "Tearing it down and rebuilding" : an interview with student activist Marshڳe Doss / Minneapolis public schools expel the police! an interview with student leader Nathaniel Genene / "Living in a future of success" : an interview with student activist Israel Presley on organizing for the Lives Matter at School Week of Action / Students deserve : the organizing work of a grassroots coalition -- Montpelier High School Racial Justice Alliance / "It will stay up until institutional racism is over" : raising the Black Lives matter flag at Montpelier High School ; an interview with student activist Noel Riby-Williams / Black Lives Matter Student Creative Challenge 2020 submissions -- Inequity and COVID-19
Abstract:
An essential collection of essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from educators, students, and activists who have been building the Black Lives Matter at School movement across the country, including a foreword by Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi.

"Black Lives Matter at School succinctly generalizes lessons from successful challenges to institutional racism that have been won through the Black Lives Matter at School movement. This book will inspire many more educators and activists to join the Black Lives Matter at School movement at a moment when this antiracist work in our schools could not be more urgent and critical to education justice. Contributors include Opal Tometi, who wrote a moving foreword, Bettina Love who shares a powerful chapter on abolitionist teaching, Brian Jones who centers Black Lives Matter at School in the historical context of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in education and prominent teacher union leaders from Chicago to Los Angeles and beyond who discuss the importance of anti-racist struggle in education unions. The book includes essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from educators, students and parents around the country who have been building Black Lives Matter at School on the ground." -- Publisher's description