Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out!: Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement

by Mark R. Warren, David Goodman, Claudio R. Ruiz (Translator)

Overview

Padres y madres, jóvenes, organizadores comunitarios y educadores describen su lucha contra el racismo sistémico en las escuelas, construyendo un nuevo movimiento interseccional por la justicia educativa. Los ensayos traducidos desde la versión original en inglés incluyen:

#AmorDePadresYMadresDelSurDeLA: Redefiniendo la participación de las madres y padres en las escuelas del sur de Los Ángeles
Maisie Chin

La libertad de aprender: Desmantelando el túnel de la escuela a la prisión en el suroeste
Pam Martinez

La escuela es el corazón de la comunidad: Construyendo escuelas comunitarias en la ciudad de Nueva York
Natasha Capers

¡Las trabajadoras y trabajadores de limpieza también son madres y padres! Promoviendo la defensa de madres y padres en el movimiento laboral
Aida Cárdenas and Janna Shadduck-Hernández

La misma lucha: Derechos de las y los inmigrantes y la justicia educativa
José Calderón

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807015728
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Publication date:	08/27/2019
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Mark R. Warren is professor of public policy and public affairs at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the founder and cochair of the Urban Research-Based Action Network. The author of three books, including most recently A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform, Warren studies and works with community and youth organizing groups seeking to promote equity and justice in education.

David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist and the author of ten books, including four coauthored with his sister, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman.

Table of Contents

Preface

INTRODUCTION
Building an Educational Justice Movement
Mark R. Warren

PART ONE: Building the Power for Change: Parent, Youth and Community Organizing

CHAPTER ONE
“I Can’t Make a Teacher Love My Son”: A Black Parent’s Journey to Racial Justice Organizing
Zakiya Sankara-Jabar

CHAPTER TWO
#SouthLAParentLove: Redefining Parent Participation in South Los Angeles Schools
Maisie Chin

CHAPTER THREE
Speaking Up and Walking Out: Boston Students Fight for Educational Justice
Carlos Rojas and Glorya Wornum

CHAPTER FOUR
Fighting for Gender Justice: Girls of Color Assert Their Voice
Kate McDonough and Christina Powell

CHAPTER FIVE
The Freedom to Learn: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline in the Southwest
Pam Martinez

PART TWO: Building Alliances for Systemic Change

CHAPTER SIX
#FightForDyett: Fighting Back Against School Closings and the Journey 4 Justice
Jitu Brown

CHAPTER SEVEN
There Is No National Without the Local: Grounding the School Discipline Movement in the Mississippi Delta
Joyce Parker

CHAPTER EIGHT
The School Is the Heart of the Community: Building Community Schools Across New York City
Natasha Capers

CHAPTER NINE
Fighting for Teachers, Children and Their Parents: Building a Social Justice Teachers Union
Brandon Johnson

CHAPTER TEN
#EndWarOnYouth: Building a Youth Movement for Black Lives and Educational Justice
Jonathan Stith

PART THREE: Educators for Justice: Movement Building in Schools, School Systems & Universities

CHAPTER ELEVEN
Teachers Unite!: Organizing School Communities for Transformative Justice
Sally Lee and Elana “E.M.” Eisen-Markowitz

CHAPTER TWELVE
Can Schools Nurture the Souls of Black and Brown Children?: Combatting the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Early Childhood Education
Roberta Udoh

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
System Change: Following an Inside-Outside Strategy as a School Board Member
Mónica García

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Walking into the Community: Community Partnerships as a Catalyst for Institutional Change in Higher Education
Maureen D. Gillette

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
#schoolismyhustle: Activist Scholars and a Youth Movement to Transform Education
Vajra Watson

PART FOUR: Intersectional Organizing: Linking Social Movements to Educational Justice

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Janitors Are Parents Too!: Promoting Parent Advocacy in the Labor Movement
Aida Cardenas and Janna Shadduck-Hernandez

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The Same Struggle: Immigrant Rights and Educational Justice
José Calderón

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Organizing Intersectionally: Trans and Queer Youth Fighting for Racial and Gender Justice
Geoffrey Winder

CONCLUSION
Conclusion: Educational Justice as Catalyst for a New Social Movement
Mark R. Warren

About the Contributors

Acknowledgments
Notes

Editorial Reviews

A welcome addition to most public and academic library collections.”
—Library Journal

“[An] impressive collection by a diverse array of education activists . . . Contributions are written as first-person narratives, giving this collection the feel of shared knowledge toward movement building.”
—Rethinking Schools

“Lift Us Up! Don’t Push Us Out! is a bold and exciting book that presents the stories we never hear—powerful stories of successful grassroots organizing in schools and communities across the nation led by parents, students, educators, and allies. The lessons we can learn from these inspiring activists and campaigns need to be spread far and wide. They show how social justice unionism plays a vital role in the fight for equity and justice for all our children and in the growing movement against privatization of public education.”
—Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union

“Full of powerful ideas, powerful examples, powerful policy strategies, and powerful people, this book touches both mind and heart. These compelling stories—told by those who lived them—teach us about and advance the much-needed educational justice movement.”
—Jeannie Oakes, Presidential Professor Emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles, and author of Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality

“Each one of the essays is a tour de force. You are captivated by the passion, the fury, the courage, the honesty, and the determination that is expressed so brilliantly by the writers, who have found a way, by working arm-in-arm with others, to fight for educational justice for all children. This book brings the powerful and authentic voices of parent and community movement leaders into our classrooms and communities.”
—Karen Mapp, senior lecturer on education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

“Featuring diverse and powerful stories of fights against the corporate degradation of American schooling, Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out! weaves an inspiring vision of what education could and should be if we valued all children and their potential. It could hardly be more timely.”
—Charles Payne, author of So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools

“At last! This book of victorious stories guides us through the resistance to racism and assaults on public schools. It is incredibly inspiring to see how educators, students, parents, and community organizations—people of color, in particular—are joining in the fight back to defeat school closures, charter expansions, and other privatization schemes. Organizing is key as uplifting policy solutions, community schools, and intergenerational movement-building replace appalling alienation and rampant disinvestment in education.”
—Dr. Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning, and Leadership, Georgia State University

“Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out! weaves together the stories of parent organizers, student activists, and committed educators who are forging a powerful movement for educational justice across the United States. Through compelling first-person narratives, the book highlights grassroots activism as a strategy for making schools culturally responsive, inclusive, and equitable.”
—John Rogers, professor of education, University of California at Los Angeles, and director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA)

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