We live at a time when the need for resistance has come front and center to international consciousness. Rise Up! Activism as Education works to advance theory and practice-oriented understandings of multiple forms of and relationships between racial justice activism and diverse and transnational educational contexts. Here contributors provide detailed accounts and examinations—historical and contemporary, local and international—of active resistance efforts aimed at transforming individuals, institutions, and communities to dismantle systems of racial domination. They explore the ways in which racial justice activism serves as public education and consciousness-raising and a form of education and resistance from those engaged in the activism. The text makes a case for activism as an educational concept that enables organizers and observers to gain important learning outcomes from on-the-ground perspectives as it explores racial justice activism, specifically in the context of community and campus activism, intersectional activism, and Black diasporic liberation. This volume is an essential handbook for preparing both students and activists to effectively resist.
CONTENTSForeword, by David Omotoso StovallPrefaceIntroductionPART 1. Community and Campus ResistanceVignette. Resistance Matters, Maxwell C. LittleVignette. A Resistance Journey in Higher Education, Storm ErvinYouth Participatory Action Research as Praxis: The Importance of Shared Power among Youth and Adults to Counter Systemic Racism, Anjalé Welton and Melanie BertrandHow Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Lessons Learned through Art, Activism, and Dialogue, Durell M. CallierWe Were Tired of Talking: The Catalyst for the Mobilizing Anger Collective, Dominique C. Hill, Mahauganee D. Shaw Bonds, and Stephen John QuayeDefining the Struggle: Epistemological Explorations of Social Geography and Digital Space in Ferguson, Amalia Dache and Cristina MislánPeer Pedagogies, Communities of Memory, and Occupying the Florida Capitol, Charles H. F. Davis IIIPART 2. Intersectional ActivismVignette. University Activism and the Central Role of Black Womyn, Abigail HollisUndocumented and Unafraid, Queer, Trans, and Unashamed: How Undocuqueer Immigrants Are Redefining the Traditional Classroom, Jesus CisnerosThe Coalitional Factors of Student Activism: How Student Coalitions Struggle to Move beyond Diversity Logics, Jalil B. Mustaffa and Oscar J. MayorgaNuanced Activism: A Matrix of Resistance, Terah J. Stewart and Brittany M. WilliamsActivism, Immigration, and Graduate School: Letters of Hope and Solidarity, Susana M. Muñoz and Angelica VelazquilloPART 3. Black Diasporic LiberationVignette. Threads of Global Political Consciousness, Jonathan L. ButlerLocked in the Shadows: Chicago's Black Community College Campus Movement, Fredrick Douglass DixonBlack Solidarity Matters, Ifeyinwa OnyenekwuThe Role of the University in Building a Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanism: Reconstituting Transnational Solidarity for Liberation, Brian KamanziContributors
