Kara M. Taylor, PhD is a public intellectual and a clinical associate professor of literacy at Indiana University Indianapolis dedicated to the emancipation/liberation of marginalized communities.Evan M. Taylor, PhD is a mathematics education researcher and an adjunct professor at Indiana University Indianapolis whose research centers on the experiences and narratives of Black males in mathematics education.Taylor Box is a former classroom teacher whose research interests include cultivating critical consciousness, whiteness, and teacher education.

• Section I. "We Were Born Sovereign" – Resistance Rooted in History, Rage, and ReclamationChapter 1. Stop Playing in Our Faces, Behind Our Backs: Myths and Hidden Truths of Educational Reform Policies; Sabrina TiggsChapter 2. Plantations, Politics, and Teacher Evaluation; Jocelyn C. FoshayChapter 3. "I Said, What I Said": Black Science Education Beyond the White Gaze A Black Teacher’s Proclamation; Eddie Taylor, Jr.Chapter 4. Redefining Resistance: Teaching Defiance at the Edge of Dominion; Charles E. Becknell, Jr. and Charlia BoyerSection II. "Rebel Revolt Return" – Borderlands, Language, and Cultural UprisingsChapter 5. Translanguaged Zines and Pop-Up Puppetry as Performative Activism; Neda Izadi and Christen Sperry GarciaChapter 6. Fronterizo Resistance: Redefining Advocacy Through Dual Language Education in the Rio Grande Valley; Erika Rendón-RamosChapter 7. Subaltern Educators Engaged in Minoritized Language Work; Vahid TuranChapter 8. Roots of Resistance: Latinas Forging a Path Forward in the Wake of SB17; Melissa A. Martinez and Camrie PiperChapter 9. Decolonial Indigenous Methodologies: Exploring Self-Identities Through Pláticas and Gupshup; Miryam Espionsa-Dulanto and Vejoya VirenSection III. "We Are Sacred" – Reclaiming Self Through Intersectional Praxis and Pedagogical ImaginationChapter 10. The Pícaro Seat; Isaac A. TorresChapter 11. Rhymes of My Life: An Exploration of Student Identity via Hip-Hop, Spoken Word, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for First-Year Students; Ellise Antoinette SmithChapter 12. Tending the Soil of Resistance: Cultivating Joy and Agency in Education; Nicole Williams-HinesChapter 13. Walking Away from the Coloniality of Being: Teacher’s Epistemic Loosenings as Coyolxauhqui; Dalia Mendoza and Laura JewettChapter 14. Beyond Resistance: A Critical Approach to Teaching Quantitative Methods; Amber Holton-Thomas and Da'Shay TempletonSection IV. "Re-member. Restore. Rejoice." – Healing as Resistance, Pedagogy as Rebirth.Chapter 15. She Gets It From Her Mama: ​​An Intergenerational Duoethnography on Giftedness and Black Girlhood in Urban Schools; Dowan McNair-Lee and Autumn LeeChapter 16. Cultivating Resistance: Poetry as a Therapeutic Vessel for Navigating Inequities in Education; Darius PhelpsChapter 17. Mirrors and Megaphones: Centering Student Identities and Creative Expression in Literacy Instruction; Michelle C. S. GreeneChapter 18. Radical Delusion as Social Activism: Reclaiming and Reimagining Democratic Futures and Radical Imaginaries in Early Childhood; Nidhi Menon and Lisa JohnstonChapter 19. We Are Here For More: A Poetic Analysis of Creative Resistance in Teaching; Michael J. SeaberrySection V. Closing InvocationConclusion: Resistance as a Living Practice; Kara M. Taylor, Evan M. Taylor, Taylor Box

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