Lori D. Patton & Ishwanzya D. Rivers 
Reauthoring Savage Inequalities [EPUB ebook] 
Narratives of Community Cultural Wealth in Urban Educational Environments

Reauthoring Savage Inequalities brings together scholars, educators, practitioners, and students to counter dominant narratives of urban educational environments. Using a community cultural wealth lens, contributors center the strategies, actions, and ways of knowing communities of color use to resist systemic oppression. So often, discussions of urban schooling are filled with stories of what Jonathan Kozol famously referred to as ‘savage inequalities’ in his 1991 book of the same title—with tales of deficiency and despair. The counternarratives in this volume grapple with the inequalities highlighted by Kozol. Yet, in foregrounding lived experiences of educating and being educated in schools and communities that were systemically isolated and disenfranchised then and continue to be thirty years later,
Reauthoring Savage Inequalities brings nuance to depictions of teaching and learning in urban areas. In nineteen essays, as well as commentaries, a foreword, and an afterword, contributors engage readers in critical dialogue about the importance of community cultural wealth. They identify the sources of support that enable students, staff, parents, and community members to succeed and thrive despite the purposeful divestment in communities of color across this nation’s cities.

قائمة المحتويات

Foreword


William T. Trent

Introduction


Lori D. Patton, Ishwanzya D. Rivers, Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton, and Joi D. Lewis




Part 1. Resilience, Wholeness, and Thriving in Urban Schools (Self)



1. Peering Back in a Press Forward: Critiques of Educational Equality that Protect White Innocence


Chayla Haynes



2. Displaced Equalities: Exploring the Impact of Place on Urban Students


Jada Renee Koushik



3. Persisting through Life as a Result of My Urban Education: The Making of a Black Male Professor


Omari Jackson



Guest Commentary and Reflection: We Know Best What Tools and Resources Will Sustain Us


Dorinda J. Carter Andrews




Part 2. The Urban Community as Educator (Community)



4. Chicago’s Other Children


Mirelsie Velazquez



5. Far from Savage: (Re)Turning to My Village and Revealing the “Two Worlds of Washington”

Steve D. Mobley Jr.



6. A Third-World City: An Autoethnography on Growing Up in Detroit, Michigan, and Becoming a Teacher


Amber C. Bryant



Guest Commentary and Reflection: The Complexity and Nuances of Origin Stories


Marvin Lynn




Part 3. Centering Students in Teaching and Learning (Students)



7. “People Don’t
Really Know Camden High”: Student Perspectives on their Negatively Viewed High School


Keith Benson with help from Deliyah Whetstone, Tina Q. Baker, Merv Ragsdale, T’emon’et Elliot, Joel Tarte, Dwyane Cooke, Naima Battie, Ajianna Bailey, Joselyn Chevere, Rasheed Pollard, Ijshanna Martin, and Brene’ Troutman



8. No Excuses: Believing and Achieving


Jane Bean-Folkes, Susan Browne, and Chanelle Rose



9. Avenues to Organic Engagement: One Counselor-Educator’s Experiences Working with Community Agencies to Promote Educational Success in an Urban Community


Ahmad R. Washington



Guest Commentary and Reflection: There’s More to the Story: Counter-Narrating Urban Failure and Success


Noelle W. Arnold




Part 4. Reflections on Educator and Institutional Influences (Educators)



10. Fictive Kin as Driving Forces for Academic Success in Detroit: Black Women’s Narratives on Successfully Navigating through College


Diane Fuselier-Thompson, Ezella Mc Pherson, and Carly Braxton



11. “Old School” Urban Education: How Friends, Families, Communities, and Teachers Support Success in Early Childhood


Theresa J. Canada



12. “I Have Seen the Mountaintop”: Intersectionality and the Auto-ethnography of a Mediocre Student at a Gifted School


Heather Moore Roberson



13. Dispelling the Myth of Despair and Hopelessness: How Ethical Leadership Creates a Counter-Narrative to Kozol’s Leadership Caricature


Lonnie R. Morris Jr. and Maceo A. Cooper-Jenkins



Guest Commentary and Reflection: Same Place, Different Race


H. Rich Milner IV




Part 5. Renarrativizing “Home” (Place)



14. And Still We Made It: Counter-Narratives of Success, Educational Attainment, and Opportunity in Atlanta


Brittany M. Williams and Lyntoria Newton



15. In Search of Oz: Culture, Education, and Counter-Narratives of Inequity in Southern Colored Schools


Toby S. Jenkins



16. Bringing the Love Back Home: An Ode to the Wiz and Growing Up in East St. Louis


Jodi L. Jordan, Deborah J. Patton, and Lori D. Patton



Guest Commentary and Reflection: Emerald City, Oz, and
Savage Inequalities in Education: Centering the Ruby Slippers


Theodorea Berry




Part 6. Sunday Dinners with Love



17. The Meaning of Sunday Dinners


Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton



18. East St Louis: Where Our Black Lives Always Mattered


Dallas Jewell Watson and Joi D. Lewis



19. We Were Always a Community: Cooking, Eating, and Living in the John De Shields Housing Project


Ishwanzya D. Rivers



Guest Commentary and Reflection: “You Can’t Keep Telling Us What We Already Know”: A Fugitive End to Educational Narratives of Tragedy


David Stovall



Afterword


Tara J. Yosso

Contributors

Index

عن المؤلف

Lori D. Patton is Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs and Chair for the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University.
Ishwanzya D. Rivers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Evaluation, and Organizational Development at the University of Louisville.
Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Joi D. Lewis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joi Unlimited and the Founder and President of Healing Justice Foundation.