Book
Black lives matter at school : an uprising for educational justice
Publication Information
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2020.
Physical Description
xv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
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
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