Resisting Racism and Promoting Equity Through Community-Engaged Social Action

"Mirón and Green have crafted an impressive study that combines thoughtful anger over a relentless American history of racial bigotry and oppression with their own agenda of potential correctives. To overcome years of unhelpful "neoliberal" policies – made worse by the Trump presidency and propaganda spewed by Fox News – the authors encourage the Black Community to come together to promote an overhaul of a broken educational system and to demand greater equity on other fronts such as housing and health care."

Curtis Wilkie, former Fellow of the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics at University of Mississippi, internationally recognized civil rights journalist, and author

"Resisting Racism and Promoting Equity through Community-Engaged Social Action is a critical intervention in a time and context in which schooling has come under siege by narrow-minded politics and right-wing ideologues aiming to throw the country back into a pre-Reconstruction past. The scope and ambition of Mirón and Green’s book extends beyond mere diagnosis of the myriad problems associated with the racialized ordering of schooling. But the authors point, in addition, to workable solutions that draw on the wellspring of moral and material resources residing in urban communities in which too often, too many schools now exist as armies of occupation. The authors of this timely volume offer a vision that seeks to combine community-focused actions and interventions with the ameliorative strategies and investments of progressive educators and social actors committed to social change and meaningful futures for Black and Brown youth."

Cameron McCarthy, University Scholar and Former Director of Global Studies and Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign