Voices for Diversity and Social Justice: A Literary Education Anthology is an unflinching exploration through poetry, prose, and art of the heart of our educational system-of the segregation, bias, and oppression that are part of the daily lives of so many students and educators. It is also a series of poetical insights into the fights for liberation and resistance at the heart of many of the same students' and teachers' lives. The contributors-youth, educators, activists, others-share what it is like to face discrimination, challenge unjust policy, or subvert monotony by cultivating a vibrant, equitable, revolutionary school environment. This is not a prescriptive text, but instead a call to action. It is a call from many literary voices to create schools where social justice is at the core of education. Stunning in its revelations, Voices for Diversity and Social Justice is an anthology by educators and students unafraid to be passionate about what is missing, what is needed, and what is working in order to make that vision a reality.
Contents Part One: Speaking Through the Silence Chapter 1: Diz On The Way To School, Fred Arcoleo Chapter 2: I Get It, Anon Chapter 3: Between Worlds, Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes Chapter 4: How I Came to Poetry, Jeanne Bryner Chapter 5: This School, Jan Buley Chapter 6: English as a Second Language at Our Lady Of Guadeloupe Church, Jeff Lacey Part Two: Experiencing Poverty Chapter 7: Telling It Like It Is, Adaline Carlette Love Chapter 8: Family Matters, Amy D. Clark Chapter 9: The Worst Thing About Being Poor, Amy E. Harter Chapter 10: The Poster Board, Carol L. Revelle Chapter 11: Dress to Impress, Salvatore "Chato" Hernandez Chapter 12: Untitled, Tricia Gallagher-Guertsen Part Three: Unleashing Student Voices Chapter 13: What if Cornel West Was Wrong?, Becky Martinez Chapter 14: Ramon's Truth, Fred Arcoleo Chapter 15: Girl on Fire, Cathleen Cohen Chapter 16: Appalachian By Proxy, Althea Webb Chapter 17: Language The Truest Tongue, Barbara Tramonte Chapter 18: Talking blocks, Cindy L Prater Chapter 19: Skin, Tessa Stark Part Four: Being the Target Chapter 20: Survival, Lorena German Chapter 21: Star Student, Emily Brooks Chapter 22: Equations, Cathleen Cohen Chapter 23: Looking in the Mirror in Elementary School, Sidrah Maysoon Chapter 24: The Tower, The Book and the Girl They Let In, Shannon Gibney Chapter 25: To Lumpia or Not to Lumpia, Cheryl E. Matias Chapter 26: New Girl, Sheila O'Connor Part Five: Claiming Our Space and Identities Chapter 27: White Hallways, Cora Lee Conway Chapter 28: First Generation College Blues, Rosanna Salcedo Chapter 29: Learning Up Front, Curtis Robbins Chapter 30: The Way I Am, Min Feldman Chapter 31: Independence Day, Elizabeth L. Sammons Chapter 32: America, Loren Gatti Chapter 33: A Cultural Frankenstein,Pao "Agean" Yang Chapter 34: Spirit First, Consequences, Second, Xamuel Banales Chapter 35: Forced Out of School, Tenth Grade, Erica Lenti Chapter 36: Jia Curry Bild, Torn Part Six: Celebrating the Power of Teachers Chapter 37: Testimony, Tasha Graff Chapter 38: Seat Them With Princes, Jeanne Bryner Chapter 39: Finding the Strength in the Fragile, Kristy Pierce Chapter 40: Piling On, Lisa Cech Part Seven: Reaching Across Difference & Celebrating Diversity's Richness Chapter 41: People Colored Crayons, Julie Feng Chapter 42: Red Light, Green Light, D. J. Savarese Chapter 43: Walking the Corridor is Being in Another Country, Julie Landsman Chapter 44: A visit to the County Special Ed. Program, Mary Langer Thompson Chapter 45: Breaking the Ice, Lisa Richter Chapter 46: Chasing Butterflies and Catching Grasshoppers, Elizabeth E. Vaughn Chapter 47: Breaking Bread, Merna Ann Hecht Part Eight: Subversive Teaching and Learning Chapter 48: How I Learned to Read the Word, Francisco Rios Chapter 49: Even Kings, Richard Hollinger
