Black Lives Matter in US Schools

Boni Wozolek is Assistant Professor of Education at Pennsylvania State University, Abington. She is the author of Assemblages of Violence in Education: Everyday Trajectories of Oppression.

• Introduction: From Cooper and Woodson to Schools Today: BLM and American SchoolsBoni Wozolek1. Revisiting Claims about #BlackLivesMatter: Toward an Equity Literate Fact-Checking ApproachSherick A. Hughes2. From the Mouths of the Lives that MatterNgozi Williams3. The Summer of 2016 in Baton Rouge: Riots, Levees, and Community Uplift When Black Lives Matter Comes to TownRoland W. Mitchell4. Black Theory Matters: AntiBlackness, White Logics, and the Limits of Diversity Research ParadigmsKirsten T. Edwards5. Education as if Black Lives Mattered: A Critical (and Crucial) Literacies ApproachYolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Marcelle Haddix, and Cluny Lavache6. Getting Schooled: A Curriculum of Lying, Choking, and DyingWalter S. Gershon7. Notes from a City on Fire: The Mattering of Black Lives and the End of RetrenchmentDavid Omotoso Stovall8. Letter to Rev. Dr. PauliReagan P. Mitchell9. Democracy in the Break: A Riff in Support of the Movement for Black LivesDenise Taliaferro BaszileAfterwordLester K. SpenceContributorsIndex

"…Black Lives Matter in US Schools offers … educators a place where the tensions they've felt are acknowledged, affirmed, and, most importantly, regarded seriously." — Journal of Curriculum Theorizing"One of the chief questions Wozolek and her co-conspirators seek to ask is: how might we turn curriculum studies to consider the lives of the students most often at the wrong end of every educational statistic we collect? And then, how might we turn curriculum studies to the more radical project of giving those students (and their comrades) the tools they (we) need to actually create a world in which their lives not only matter but also determine the fate of everyone else on the planet?" — from the Afterword by Lester K. Spence"This is a critically important volume that emphatically affirms BLACK LIVES MATTER! Many of the contributors are sought-after leaders in their fields and the mix of approaches coalesces into a highly readable book. The varying lines of flight on display center Black lives in ways that are scholarly rigorous, yet have the potential to reach a wide audience." — Zachary A. Casey, coauthor of Building Pedagogues: White Practicing Teachers and the Struggle for Antiracist Work in Schools