Handbook of race and refusal in higher education : like a path in tall grasses / edited by Kenjus T. Watson, (School of Education, American University, Washington D.C.), Nora Cisneros, (Department of Ethnic Studies, California State University, Bakersfield), Lindsay Pérez Huber, (College of Education, California State University, Long Beach), and Verónica Vélez, (Woodring Collective of Education, Western Washington University, US).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Kenjus, editor.

Cisneros, Nora, editor.

Pérez Huber, Lindsay, editor.

Vélez, Verónica, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks in education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in higher education.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"This cutting-edge Handbook goes beyond discourses of equity, inclusion, and diversity, carving a space for critical discussions about the relationships between Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and the university. In doing so, it forges new paths and alternative conceptual starting points to consider in making a commitment to social justice in higher education. Kenjus Watson, Nora Cisneros, Lindsay Pérez Huber, and Verónica Vélez bring together a dynamic collective of scholars, educators, students, community members, and activists to ask the critical question: how do we work towards justice through a lens of refusal in higher education? The Handbook presents both traditional and non-traditional scholarship, including creative and artistic work, to explore the distinctive ways white supremacy, settler colonialism, and antiblackness impact students, faculty, and communities within HE, with chapters providing insight into everyday strategies of refusal, radical imaginaries of abolitions and futurities, and projects of decolonization. Taking stock of the tensions and contradictions in 'undoing' the university while occupying positions within it, the Handbook concludes that the study of education cannot be divorced from the sociohistorical, political, and economic architectures that have shaped it. This path-breaking Handbook will be a crucial resource for BIPOC students, scholars, and faculty within HE institutions, as well as students of the sociology of education, the sociology of discrimination, education policy, and race, ethnicity, and colonial studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword: The before, beyond, and elsewhere of refusal / Sandy Grande

Artist's statement / Marion Parajes

Like a path in tall grasses: Introducing the handbook of race and refusal in higher education

Race and refusal collective: Nora cisneros, lindsay pérez huber, verónica vélez, and kenjus t. Watson

Part I: Refusal along the path

Introduction to Part I:

Race and refusal collective

1. Freedom dreaming: Visions of refusal and collectivity from the past, present, and future / Tanya J. Gaxiola Serrano, Socorro Morales, and Alma Itzé Flores

2. My journey in the tall grass of resistance and refusal: From race, ethnic, and gender studies to freirean critical pedagogy to critical race theory to the rac / Daniel G. Solorzano

3. Disrupting the novice/master dichotomy as refusal: A critical race counterstory about mentoring / Michael W. Moses II

4. Letters to our children: Mothering in the academy and a global pandemic / Alma Itzé Flores and Mercedes Valadez

5. The spectacle of chicanx system-impacted youth: My path towards refusal / María C. Malagón

6. The political economy of military recruitment and education privatisation / Nina Monet Reynoso

Part II: Abolition and fugitivity: Investments in the 'not yet'

Introduction to Part II / Race and Refusal Collective

7. The canary / Alexander Morrison Henry (henry poetry)

8. Abolition, blackcrit and the perpetual necessity of refusal in education: A necessary path forward / David Stovall

9. The black smugglers of higher education: How black students, scholars, and faculty members disrupt schooling institutions to educate black youth / Earl J. Edwards and Elianny C. Edwards

10. Black feminist otherwise: Within and against the university / Mary Senyonga

11. Lessons learned: Black student leadership and the progressive university / J.P. Lesure

12. No university at the end of the world: Notes towards an abolitionist university / Gene McAdoo

13. Embracing revolt and exile: A conversation on the perpetual refusal of the academy / edxi, (J)une Bee, and Estelle Ellison

Part III: Decolonization and futurities

Introduction to Part III / Race and Refusal Collective

14. A shattered coyolxauhqui writes her heart whole: On refusing colonisation and fragmentation in creative writing / Elizabeth Parker Garcia

15. Decolonising higher education (we) through a collaborative (us) program-wide approach / Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn, M. Billye Sankofa Waters, and Christopher B. Knaus

16. From compliance culture to liberatory access: Reimagining disabled and deaf futurities on college campuses and beyond / Anna Acha and Danielle Mireles

17. Recipe for ritual / Andii H.

18. Creating a pedagogy of afro-indigenous epistemic disobedience: Notes on reimaging care and healing in education / Cindy Bonaparte

19. Dancing in the wake | like moss over modernity / simple ant

20. Drawing from the well: 'i never remember hearing that healing was going to feel good.' / Tiffani Marie, Kenjus T. Watson, and Jewell Bachelor

21. Where might we go from here? An inconclusive conclusion to the handbook of race and refusal in higher education

Race and refusal collective and race and refusal handbook contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781800377875 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.