Foreword
Christine Sleeter
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Anita Rao Mysore
Section 1: Experiences of social justice educators who were born in the USA
Chapter One: The Necessity of Critical Femtoring: Practicing DesiCrit as a Punjabi American Professor
Dimpal Jain
Chapter Two: Navigating South Asian/Desi Identity as a Teacher Educator in Silicon Valley
Saili S. Kulkarni
Section 2: Experiences of social justice educators who immigrated to the USA as children
Chapter Three: “The game is rigged”: Promoting economic literacy to fight inequity
Anand R. Marri
Chapter Four: Roots and Branches: (Always) Becoming a Social Justice Educator Committed to Anti-racist Teaching and Research
Anita Chikkatur
Section 3: Experiences of social justice educators who immigrated to the USA for higher education
Chapter Five: Grappling with the Complexities of Decolonization, Equity, and Education Betwixt and Between: Some Thoughts from a South Asian American Scholar
Nina Asher
Chapter Six: Experiencing the Margins as Freedom and Limitation: A First Generation Immigrant Perspective
Raji Swaminathan
Chapter Seven: Navigating Diversity Faultlines as a South Asian Immigrant Multicultural Teacher Educator
Dilys Schoorman
Chapter Eight: My Diverse Self: Learning, Unlearning and Re-Learning
Hema Ramanathan
Chapter Nine: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Anita Rao Mysore
About the Contributors