Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education

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

• Contents:Foreword: the before, beyond, and elsewhere of refusal xviSandy GrandeArtist’s statement xixMarion ParajesLike a path in tall grasses: introducing the Handbook of Race andRefusal in Higher Education xxRace and Refusal Collective: Nora Cisneros, Lindsay Pérez Huber, VerónicaVélez, and Kenjus T. WatsonPART I REFUSAL ALONG THE PATHIntroduction to Part I 2Race and Refusal Collective1 Freedom dreaming: visions of refusal and collectivity from thepast, present, and future 5Tanya J. Gaxiola Serrano, Socorro Morales, and Alma Itzé Flores2 My journey in the tall grass of resistance and refusal: fromrace, ethnic, and gender studies to Freirean critical pedagogyto critical race theory to the RAC 25Daniel G. Solorzano3 Disrupting the novice/master dichotomy as refusal: a criticalrace counterstory about mentoring 42Michael W. Moses II4 Letters to our children: mothering in the academy and a globalpandemic 58Alma Itzé Flores and Mercedes Valadez5 The spectacle of chicanx system-impacted youth: my pathtowards refusal 79María C. Malagón6 The political economy of military recruitment and educationprivatisation 92Nina Monet ReynosoPART II ABOLITION AND FUGITIVITY: INVESTMENTSIN THE ‘NOT YET’Introduction to Part II 106Race and Refusal Collective7 the canary 112Alexander Morrison Henry (henry poetry)8 Abolition, BlackCrit and the perpetual necessity of refusal ineducation: a necessary path forward 120David Stovall9 The Black smugglers of higher education: how Black students,scholars, and faculty members disrupt schooling institutions toeducate Black youth 128Earl J. Edwards and Elianny C. Edwards10 Black feminist otherwise: within and against the university 142Mary Senyonga11 Lessons learned: Black student leadership and the progressiveuniversity 159J.P. Lesure12 No university at the end of the world: notes towards anabolitionist university 174Gene McAdoo13 Embracing revolt & exile: a conversation on the perpetualrefusal of the academy 187edxi, (J)une Bee, and Estelle EllisonPART III DECOLONIZATION AND FUTURITIESIntroduction to Part III 211Race and Refusal Collective14 A shattered Coyolxauhqui writes her heart whole: on refusingcolonisation and fragmentation in creative writing 214Elizabeth Parker Garcia15 Decolonising higher education (we) through a collaborative(us) program-wide approach 228Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn, M. Billye Sankofa Waters, andChristopher B. Knaus16 From compliance culture to liberatory access: reimaginingdisabled & deaf futurities on college campuses and beyond 241Anna Acha and Danielle Mireles17 Recipe for ritual 269Andii H.18 Creating a pedagogy of Afro-Indigenous epistemicdisobedience: notes on reimaging care and healing in education 271Cindy Bonaparte19 dancing in the wake | like moss over modernity 281simple ant20 Drawing from the Well: ‘I never remember hearing thathealing was going to feel good.’ 294Tiffani Marie, Kenjus T. Watson, and Jewell Bachelor21 Where might we go from here? An inconclusive conclusion tothe Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education 318Race and Refusal Collective and Race and Refusal HandbookContributorsIndex 327