From the Book - First edition.
Section 1: Making Black Lives Matter in Our Schools
Black Students’ Lives Matter: Building the school-to-justice pipeline / By the editors of Rethinking Schools
How One Elementary School Sparked a Citywide Movement to Make Black Students’ Lives Matter / By Wayne Au and Jesse Hagopian
Student Athletes Kneel to Level the Playing Field / By Jesse Hagopian
Happening Yesterday, Happened Tomorrow: Teaching the ongoing murders of Black men / By Renée Watson
Space for Young Black Women: An interview with Candice Valenzuela / By Jody Sokolower
Trayvon Martin and My Students: Writing toward justice / By Linda Christensen
Two Sets of Notes / By MK Asante
Taking the Fight Against White Supremacy into Schools / By Adam Sanchez
A Vision for Black Lives: Policy demands for Black power, freedom, and justice / By the Movement for Black Lives coalition
Section 2: Enslavement, Civil Rights, and Black Liberation
The Color Line: How white elites sought to divide and conquer in the American colonies / By Bill Bigelow
Presidents and Slaves: Helping students find the truth / By Bob Peterson
When Black Lives Mattered: Why teach Reconstruction / By Adam Sanchez
Reconstructing the South / By Bill Bigelow
Medical Apartheid: Teaching the Tuskegee Syphilis Study / By Gretchen Kraig-Turner
Beyond Just a Cells Unit: What my science students learned from the story of Henrietta Lacks / By Gretchen Kraig-Turner
Teaching SNCC: The organization at the heart of the civil rights revolution / By Adam Sanchez
Claiming and Teaching the 1963 March on Washington / By Bill Fletcher Jr.
Reflections of a “Deseg Baby” / By Linda Mizell
What We Don’t Learn About the Black Panther Party
but Should / By Adam Sanchez and Jesse Hagopian
COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s war on the Black freedom movement / By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Section 3: Gentrification, Displacement, and Anti-Blackness
Burned Out of Homes and History: Unearthing the silenced voices of the Tulsa Race Riot / By Linda Christensen
“The Most Gentrified City of the Century” / By Becky HenkleBerry and Jeff Waters
What Do You Mean When You Say Urban?: Speaking honestly about race and students / By Dyan Watson
Vacancies to Fill: Considering desire in the past and future of Chicago’s vacant schools / By Eve L. Ewing
Plotting Inequalities, Building Resistance / By Bridget Brew, Crystal Proctor, and Adam Renner
Bearing Witness Through Poetry / By Renée Watson
Shock-Doctrine Schooling in Haiti: Neoliberalism off the Richter scale / By Jesse Hagopian
Lead Poisoning: Bringing social justice to chemistry / By Karen Zaccor
Section 4: Discipline, the Schools-to-Prison Pipeline, and Mass Incarceration
Jailing Our Minds / By Abbie Cohen
Schools and the New Jim Crow: An interview with Michelle Alexander / By Jody Sokolower
Racial Justice Is Not a Choice: White supremacy, high-stakes testing, and the punishment of Black and Brown students / By Wayne Au
How K–12 Schools Push Out Black Girls: An interview with Monique W. Morris / By Kate Stoltzfus
Haniyah’s Story / By Haniyah Muhammad
Teaching Haniyah / By Jody Sokolower
Teaching the Prison-Industrial Complex / By Aparna Lakshmi
Restorative Justice: What it is and is not / By the editors of Rethinking Schools
Baby Steps Toward Restorative Justice / By Linea King
Section 5 — Teaching Blackness, Loving Blackness, and Exploring Identity
A Talk to Teachers/ By James Baldwin
Black Like Me / By Renée Watson
Dear White Teacher / By Chrysanthius Lathan
Black Boys in White Spaces: One mom’s reflection / By Dyan Watson
Raised by Women Celebrating our homes / By Linda Christensen
Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class / By Clint Smith
#MeToo and The Color Purple / By Linda Christensen
Queering Black History and Getting Free / By Dominique Hazzard
Rethinking Islamophobia: Combating bigotry by raising the voices of Black Muslims / By Alison Kysia
Rethinking Identity: Afro-Mexican history / By Michelle Nicola
Brown Kids Can’t Be in Our Club: Teaching 6-year-olds about skin color, race, culture, and respect / By Rita Tenorio
A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son / By Dyan Watson
Black Is Beautiful / By Kara Hinderlie.
