The Assault on Communities of Color: Exploring the Realities of Race-Based Violence

by Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner (Editor), Nicholas Daniel Hartlep (Editor)

Overview

The Assault on Communities of Color provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness and other hegemonies and how they re/produce injustice and violence; but also how space, place, and institutionalism produce and maintain white dominance and violence. This is the right volume during a time of wrongs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475819724
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/01/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Shirley B. Barton Endowed Professor, College of Human Sciences and Education, Louisiana State University Nicholas D. Hartlep, Assistant Professor, College of Education, College of Education, Illinois State University Lori L. Martin, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Louisiana State University Cleveland Hayes, Associate Professor, College of Education and Organizational Leadership, University of Laverne Roland W. Mitchell, Interim Associate Dean and Associate Professor, College of Human Sciences and Education, Louisiana State University Chaunda M. Allen-Mitchell, Director Office of Multicultural Affairs, Louisiana State University

Table of Contents

(Foreword) Rick Ayers & William Ayers Breathe: Notes On White Supremacy and The Fierce Urgency Of Now (Poem) Lillie Lindsay: Red Riding Hoodie (Introduction) Lori L. Martin, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Nicholas D. Hartlep, Cleveland Hayes, Roland W. Mitchell, & Chaunda M. Allen-Mitchell - By Means of Introduction: An Open Letter (Poem) Bryce Davis Bohon - Peace: A 6 Year Old St. Louisan Speaks Section 1: The Mythical Post-Racial America 1. Jason Irizary & Jonathan Rosa - Complicating Black and Brown Solidarity: Racial Positioning and Re-Positioning in “Post-Racial America” 2. Brad Kershner - The Opposite Of A Great Lie: Racism, Capitalism, and Education Policy Knowing Our History 3. René Antrop-González: Apartheid and Symbolic Violence in The New Latin@ South: Reflections and Implications 4. Chezare A. Warren - I Get Angry: The Quandary of Postracialism 5. Paul Gorski - Ferguson and The Violence of “It’s-All-About-Me” White Liberalism 6. Dana L. Bickmore - “I Need To Check With Corporate” 7. Leigh Jefferson Griffin - Skittles, Arizona Iced Tea, and Cigarettes: The Price of Black Lives in A “Post-Racial” America 8. Amanda R. Martinez & Robert Gutierrez-Perez - Are We Post-Post-Race Yet?: Moving Beyond The Black-White Binary Towards a Mestiza/O Consciousness 9. Melinda Jackson & Dari Green - Contradicting Realities in The Mythical Post Racial: America Blinded to Matters of Color? 10. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - What Divides Black America? Section 2: Racism & Violence Against Minority and Minoritized Communities  11. David O. Stovall - Normalizing Black Death:  Michael Brown, Marissa Alexander, Dred Scott and the Apartheid State 12. Christine Sleeter - Viewing Barack Obama Through Racist Stereotypes 13. Cheryl Matias & Roberto Montoya - When Michael’s Death Means Our Own Children’s Death: Critical Race Parenting in A Time of Racial Extermination 14. Reanna S. Roby & Theodorea Regina Berry - Respectability Politics and Acts Of Violence 15. Horace R. Hall - Countering Postcolonial Assaults on Black American Life 16. Subini Ancy Annamma - We Can’t Breathe: The Impacts of Police Brutality on Women of Color 17. Susan Anne Cridland-Hughes & Lagarrett J. King - Killing Me Softly: How Violence Comes From the Curriculum We Teach 18. Robin Diangelo - The Sketch Factor: “Bad Neighborhood” Narratives As Discursive Violence 19. Dewey M. Clayton - Racial Justice in America: Alternative Universes 20. Lisa B. Haileab And Ivory A. Toldson - The Death of Amir De’Mani Brooks: Counseling Psychologists Response To Racism and Violence Against Black Communities Section 3: The Black Male Experience in The United States  21. Donna Y. Ford – Save Our Black Males: I Should Not Have to Celebrate That My Son Lived to See the Age of 35 22. Howard C. Stevenson & Kelsey Jones - What if My Trayvon Came Home? Teaching a Wretched Truth About Breathing While Black 23. Larry C. Bryant - Gone In 90 Seconds: A Black Male Body – Normalcy, Never Again 24. Cassandra D. Chaney - Michael Brown and The Shared Ambivalence of Black And Brown America 25. Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers - Echoes of ‘People Stealers:’ Trauma Revisited 26. Lori Martin & Jahaan Chandler - And to Make Matters Worse 27. Cleveland Hayes - And You Wonder Why I Am An Angry Black Man 28. Roderick L. Carey - Desensationalizing Black Males: Navigating and Deconstructing Extreme Imageries Of Black Males and Masculinities 29. Donna Vukelich-Selva – If The System’s Broke… 30. Joni Boyd Acuff - Grey Hoodies, Baggy Jeans And Brown Skin: The Violence Against Black Males Via Signs and Signifiers    Section 4: The Fight For Equity: Communities Speak Up And Out  31. Paul D. Grant & Carl A/ Grant - To Be Men And Women: The Black Struggle For Justice Continues 32. Lisa (Leigh) Patel - Educational Research and Institutionalized Oppression 33. Audrey Lensmire - Necessary and Insufficient: Teaching and Writing in a Violent World 34. Christine Clark - The Insidiousness of Indifference to Black Injury in White America 35. Enrique Alemán, Jr. – Resisting the De-Humanization of Youth of Color: On The Death of Big Mike, “Illegal” Your Leaders and Proud Utes 36. Danielle Joy Davis, Christopher Aaron Deans, Jason S. Davis, Linda M. Davis, & Eilleen Buckner - A Call for Compassion: An African American St. Louis Family’s Reflections on Ferguson 37. Adonay A. Montes - Living the Silence: An Impediment to Culture and Equity 38. Isaac M. Carter - New-Freedom School Movement 39. Rochelle Brock - Dreaming Of Revolution: My Struggle To Understand The Assault On Blackness 40. Shirley R. Steinberg - Postmodern Fire Hoses: Media Recollections From Southern California

Editorial Reviews

We live in a time when racial tension is bubbling up and seeping through the cracks in the sidewalk. It is imperative that we as educators take to the streets and classrooms to change the hearts and minds of young people to provide opportunities to and solidify the dignity of all. In The Assault on Communities of Color, Fasching-Varner, Hartlep, and their colleagues make it crystal clear that we cannot wait any longer to stand up, and rise up, against injustice.

Marybeth Gasman

Searing, gritty, and jarring—this collection of essays brings together theoretical complexity with personal reflections to propel forward the public dialogue on race and violence in the United States today. Fasching-Varner, Hartlep, and colleagues implore us to grapple with the intricacies and the excesses of the profoundly normalized nature of the Assault on Communities of Color, even while taking hope in collectivizings that permeate the moment that we are in as being nothing short of building movement for anti-oppressive change. Read this book and join the movement.

Kevin Kumashiro

[T]he book encourages readers to go beyond the post-racial myth and explore the race-based violence plaguing minority communities, particularly Black communities, today.

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education

There is a long history of racial, social, and political unrest and injustice in this nation – a historical trauma. Notions about violence have always developed alongside socioeconomic and race-based realities. Views of the nature of violence are rooted in racist and classist worldviews that often place the deficiencies of certain groups’ inability to disrupt racism, cycles of poverty, and educational inequities and the architects of their own urban casualties (Riessman, 1962; Moynihan, 1965. Issues in Ferguson, Missouri and other communities are the newest failure of the larger society to substantially address the systemic issues of racial injustice and violation of human rights in communities of color in the United States. This volume provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness and other hegemonies and how they re/produce injustice and violence; but also how space, place, and institutionalism produce and maintain white dominance and violence. This is the right volume during a time of wrongs.

Noelle Witherspoon Arnold

What makes a community? Can we segregate by skin color, or walled off entire cities as in Gaza, and still build responsive and generative social units? We cannot hope to create in the USA the kind of reflective and active society where people learn from each other through dialogue across difference if the dominant white culture refuses a social compact among all members that reflects diversity and solidarity. Sometimes angry, always passionate and principled, the short chapters in Assaults on Communities of Color are like bursts of fire that both illuminate ideas and ignite commitments to critical and inclusive democratic praxis.

AG Rud

The Assault on Communities of Color breaks through all the lies, misconceptions, and distortions that fuel the idea that we now live in a post racial state. Not only does the book explore how race and violence intersect in a myriad of institutional, symbolic, and everyday relations, the authors use this point of analysis to begin a dialogue that is critical, informative, and speaks to the need to develop democratic public spheres and a formative culture in which such a dialogue can take place and move from words, shared values, and ethical responsibility to collective action. The Assault on Communities of Color offers up a signpost and much needed vision that at this particular historical provides a vibrant language, fresh politics, and inspired sense of civic courage.

Henry A. Giroux