Reauthoring Savage Inequalities brings together scholars, educators, practitioners, and students to counter dominant Narratives of Urban Educational environments.
They identify the sources of support that enable students, staff, parents, and Community members to succeed and thrive despite the purposeful divestment in communities of color across this nation\'s cities..
In nineteen essays, as well as commentaries, a foreword, and an afterword, contributors engage readers in critical dialogue about the importance of Community Cultural wealth.
Yet, in foregrounding lived experiences of educating and being educated in schools and communities that were systemically isolated and disenfranchised then and continue to be thirty years later, Reauthoring Savage Inequalities brings nuance to depictions of teaching and learning in Urban areas.
The counterNarratives in this volume grapple with the inequalities highlighted by Kozol.
So often, discussions of Urban schooling are filled with stories of what Jonathan Kozol famously referred to as Savage inequalities in his 1991 book of the same title--with tales of deficiency and despair.
Using a Community Cultural Wealth lens, contributors center the strategies, actions, and ways of knowing communities of color use to resist systemic oppression.
Reauthoring Savage Inequalities brings together scholars, educators, practitioners, and students to counter dominant Narratives of Urban Educational environments
