Confessions of a White Educator: Stories in Search of Justice and Diversity provides a collection of stories and essays that offer an insightful analysis of the factors that limit and sometimes derail our best efforts to educate future generations. Exploring the formidable obstacle that racism and its denial continue to pose in education, the book provokes us to examine our views about, and perhaps complicity in, the failure of the nation’s public schools. Edited by Joan T. Wynne, Lisa Delpit, and Ron E. Miles, Confessions of a White Educator: Stories in Search of Justice and Diversity features stories and essays that confront the contradictory and absurd public education policies, behaviors, and practices that stem from a misunderstanding of difference, denial of the pervasive influence of racism, and a belief that only certain voices are worth hearing. 
A captivating and compelling read, Confessions of a White Educator: Stories in Search of Justice and Diversity should be read by every person who aspires to teach, who is teaching, or who wants to understand the complex issues that limit what can be achieved in our public schools. The dean of every college of education in the nation should make this book a required read for future teachers. Robert M. Dixon, Ph.D., Dean of Academic Affairs Medgar Evans College | City University of New York

Confessions of a White Educator: Stories in Search of Justice and Diversity

Education & Teaching

Joan Therese Wynne

Lisa D Delpit

Ronald E Miles

Schools & Teaching

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

As a collection of narratives, Who Speaks for Justice: Raising Our Voices In The Noise of Hegemony explores each other’s stories about battles to be free, as researchers, teachers, learners, citizens. 
Who Speaks for Justice:
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<li>explores the tension of working, teaching, and profiting from a system that inherently creates distinction and privilege, one that thrives on disparity.</li>
<li>encourages students to recognize not only the inevitable convolutions of life’s stories, but also the power and the place of those stories in the scope of research.</li>
<li>tells of the tragedy and glory of cultures, humans, trees, and earth.</li>
<li>is a catalyst for creative encounters confronting the repression that students face every day in school buildings.</li>
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Who Speaks for Justice? Raising our voices in the noise of hegemony

Politics & Social Sciences

Carlos González

Sociology

In Reckoning with Our Roots, Wynne tells the story of her love/hate relationship with the south.  That ambivalence, she explains, began when she was 8 years old, when “the consequences of the Jim Crow south jumped up from my family’s coffee table and slapped my young white face.” A magazine cover photo caused that sting. It depicted men and women, with contorted faces, swinging chains threateningly at young black children, trying to integrate a school. National guardsmen stood with rifles between the children and the angry mob.From that moment on, Wynne reports, she wrestled with the good, the bad, and the ugly of the southern experience---its beautiful land, its deep sense of relationship, its gift of metaphor---and its brutality of slavery, its horrors of lynching, its oppressive Jim Crow laws, and its denial of policies grounded in racism, sexism, and class.The book recounts her journey to make sense of all those southern dichotomies, while inviting readers to reflect on their own cultural dualities. Such engagement, Wynne believes, can help all of us understand that the south’s history is just one piece of the larger tapestry of an apartheid nation. She challenges us to unearth the country’s past and present institutional tyranny, so we can ultimately come home to our nation’s founding ideals.Reckoning with Our Roots unstitches the notion that the Eurocentric narrative is the only story of America. Wynne claims it is just one of many stories that weave diverse strands into a collective, national whole. She contends that until all stories of cultural liberation create the cloth of our schools’ curriculum and our lives, our country will continue to unravel the dream of democracy.In this book, Wynne examines issues of power and privilege; white supremacy; the #MeToo Movement; the failure of schools to deliver quality education to marginalized students; the brilliance of the Algebra Project and the Young People’s Project; the necessity for quality public schools for all; and the many lessons we can learn by listening to the young, and by studying Black scholars, the Southern Freedom Movement and the Black Liberation Movement of the African Diaspora.

Reckoning With Our Roots: Unearthing Injustice to Find Our Way Home

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