Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 222
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Trim: 6½ x 9¼
978-1-4758-0712-7 • Hardback • August 2015 • $87.00 • (£67.00)
978-1-4758-0713-4 • Paperback • August 2015 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-4758-0714-1 • eBook • August 2015 • $42.50 • (£35.00)
Julie Landsman is a retired teacher, author of A White Teacher Talks About Race and Growing Up White; A Veteran Teacher Reflects on Racism. She consults with schools and universities around the country and internationally.
Paul C. Gorski is the founder of EdChange and teaches in the Social Justice and Human Rights program in George Mason University’s New Century College. He is a social justice activist, educator, and writer with social justice as his core.
Rosanna M. Salcedo is a Latina artist, educator, parent, activist, and dreamer. She teaches Spanish and currently holds the position of Dean of Multicultural Affairs at Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in New England, where she resides with her two sons and their dog.
Contents
Part One: Speaking Through the Silence
Chapter 1: Diz On The Way To School, Fred Arcoleo
Chapter 2: I Get It, Anon
Chapter 3: Between Worlds, Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
Chapter 4: How I Came to Poetry, Jeanne Bryner
Chapter 5: This School, Jan Buley
Chapter 6: English as a Second Language at Our Lady Of Guadeloupe Church, Jeff Lacey
Part Two: Experiencing Poverty
Chapter 7: Telling It Like It Is, Adaline Carlette Love
Chapter 8: Family Matters, Amy D. Clark
Chapter 9: The Worst Thing About Being Poor, Amy E. Harter
Chapter 10: The Poster Board, Carol L. Revelle
Chapter 11: Dress to Impress, Salvatore “Chato” Hernandez
Chapter 12: Untitled, Tricia Gallagher-Guertsen
Part Three: Unleashing Student Voices
Chapter 13: What if Cornel West Was Wrong?, Becky Martinez
Chapter 14: Ramon’s Truth, Fred Arcoleo
Chapter 15: Girl on Fire, Cathleen Cohen
Chapter 16: Appalachian By Proxy, Althea Webb
Chapter 17: Language The Truest Tongue, Barbara Tramonte
Chapter 18: Talking blocks, Cindy L Prater
Chapter 19: Skin, Tessa Stark
Part Four: Being the Target
Chapter 20: Survival, Lorena German
Chapter 21: Star Student, Emily Brooks
Chapter 22: Equations, Cathleen Cohen
Chapter 23: Looking in the Mirror in Elementary School, Sidrah Maysoon
Chapter 24: The Tower, The Book and the Girl They Let In, Shannon Gibney
Chapter 25: To Lumpia or Not to Lumpia, Cheryl E. Matias
Chapter 26: New Girl, Sheila O’Connor
Part Five: Claiming Our Space and Identities
Chapter 27: White Hallways, Cora Lee Conway
Chapter 28: First Generation College Blues, Rosanna Salcedo
Chapter 29: Learning Up Front, Curtis Robbins
Chapter 30: The Way I Am, Min Feldman
Chapter 31: Independence Day, Elizabeth L. Sammons
Chapter 32: America, Loren Gatti
Chapter 33: A Cultural Frankenstein,Pao “Agean” Yang
Chapter 34: Spirit First, Consequences, Second, Xamuel Bañales
Chapter 35: Forced Out of School, Tenth Grade, Erica Lenti
Chapter 36: Jia Curry Bild, Torn
Part Six: Celebrating the Power of Teachers
Chapter 37: Testimony, Tasha Graff
Chapter 38: Seat Them With Princes, Jeanne Bryner
Chapter 39: Finding the Strength in the Fragile, Kristy Pierce
Chapter 40: Piling On, Lisa Cech
Part Seven: Reaching Across Difference & Celebrating Diversity’s Richness
Chapter 41: People Colored Crayons, Julie Feng
Chapter 42: Red Light, Green Light, D. J. Savarese
Chapter 43: Walking the Corridor is Being in Another Country, Julie Landsman
Chapter 44: A visit to the County Special Ed. Program, Mary Langer Thompson
Chapter 45: Breaking the Ice, Lisa Richter
Chapter 46: Chasing Butterflies and Catching Grasshoppers, Elizabeth E. Vaughn
Chapter 47: Breaking Bread, Merna Ann Hecht
Part Eight: Subversive Teaching and Learning
Chapter 48: How I Learned to Read the Word, Francisco Rios
Chapter 49: Even Kings, Richard Hollinger
Diversity is not merely difference but differences that arise out of commonality, such as the humanity we all share. Justice implies equality in treatment, privilege, opportunity, or other arenas. Social justice has a connotation of what society ought to do or what society is doing to ensure just treatment of its members. Of course, these concepts require greater precision when used and are prone to misunderstanding and manipulation in contemporary usage. This work aims to clarify terminology used in popular vernacular and expose some of the nuances that we typically don't consider but profoundly impact our thinking, speech, and actions. Entries are alphabetically arranged, and each has a reference for those interested in additional research. Most entries provide an ind-depth treatment of their subject matters and are written so as to be accessible to the general reader. Examples include Able-ism, Bisexuality, Empathy, Freedom of speech, and Tokenism. Some main-level headings have two entries exploring either specialized aspects of that topic or presenting a different viewpoint on the issue. The clarity and depth of the entries make the set suitable for general readers as well as specialists looking to broaden their knowledge. . . .Recommended for the most academic libraries.
— Publishers Weekly
This book fills a very important void in the field of education. The editors have done a masterful job connecting poems, essays, memoirs, short stories and visual art to promote diversity and social justice in education. I highly recommend this book for all who care about the power of education to change the world!
— Chance W. Lewis, PhD, Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education; director, The Urban Education Collaborative, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
This anthology honors the multitude of stories that are alive in our culture, and that need to be heard. Writers both well-known and unknown tell their truths in poetry and prose. They make beauty; they call out for understanding, or change. I am reminded of my many years working as a poet in the schools, of the beauty and joy and learning that happen when everyone is encouraged to make art, when everyone's truth is respected, and listened to.I believe this book will will do good work in the world, and will awaken its readers to values we should and could hold dear in schools everywhere.
— Deborah Keenan Poet, professor, Creative Writing Programs, Hamline University
Echoing from classrooms, schools and communities across this country comes voices of rationality and justice. The words on these pages by the authors speak volumes to everyone. I was moved to read this text and am so moved that I view many of these poems as required reading and reflection points for all who are concerned with social justice.
— Robert W. Simmons III, Eastern Michigan University, Teacher Education
Anyone in or around the education field needs to read Voices for Diversity and Social Justice. This anthology captures the modern moments of students in grades K-12, and college, who do not identify with their school’s norms of identity, experience, or behavior. In poignant prose and powerful poetry, a tale of educational events from the 1950’s through today is woven seamlessly, told through multiple voices and various perspectives. And yet, the narrative is cohesive, suggesting that while many things have changed in the last 65 years, some things remain. The feeling that the young trailblazers felt as they entered white schools after the Brown vs Board decision resonates with today’s students as expressed by the anonymous writer of “I Get It,” who says, “You unlocked the door and let me in. I better behave.” This is an anthology of voices that want to act up, of voices no longer silenced, no longer whispering, no longer raised in a meeting and then forgotten like echoes across limited time. This anthology is of voices that will continue to reverberate, in print so as not to be denied.
— Rodney Glasgow, chief Diversity Officer, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School of Potomac, MD; Founder and Chair, National Diversity Directors Institute; Chair, National Association of Independent Schools’ Student Diversity Leadership Conference