1st Edition
Educational Necropolitics A Sonic Ethnography of Everyday Racisms in U.S. Schools
Acknowledgements Preface: Sitting with the Ancestors Introduction: Sonic Orientations and the Strange Fruit of Schools Chapter 1: Reverberating knots: Milford and The Crew Chapter 2: Too Black for School: Finding Places, Making Spaces Chapter 3: No After School Special Chapter 4: "And That’s My Struggle Bus" Chapter 5: Interlude: Recapitulation and Re-membering Chapter 6: Framed, Again Chapter 7: Arrested by Norms Chapter 8: Fields, Shame, and Schooling Chapter 9: Necropolitics of Schooling Appendix Index
Biography
Boni Wozolek is an Assistant Professor of Education at Penn State University, Abington College, USA.
"In this moment when we are resisting and enduring a number of anti-antiracist school board policies and practices, Dr. Boni Wozolek’s work in Educational Necropolitics: A Sonic Ethnography of Racism in U.S. Schools is right on time. With deep reflection, care, theoretical strength, and attentiveness to the lives of students of color as they navigate the everyday racialized and gendered violence of schools and schooling, Dr. Wozolek offers a loud reminder of why we must continue to struggle for more and better antiracist curriculum and pedagogy as part of the work we must do to forge a praxis of regard."
--Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Associate Dean for Student Services and Diversity and Student Experience for the College of Education, Health, and Society, Miami University
"Grounded in the everyday materialities of young people’s everyday lives at school, Educational Necropolitics: A Sonic Ethnography of Everyday Racisms in U.S. Schools is a deftly polyphonic work that artfully negotiates important sociocultural theories and emergent methodologies. Listening deeply to how systems normalize violence against some so that others might be understood as successful, Boni Wozolek’s book is a study in how to speak difficult, critical truths with vulnerability and care so that we might decide to do otherwise."
--Walter Gershon, Associate Professor of Critical Foundations of Education and Program Coordinate for the Master’s in Urban Education and Community Studies, Rowan University
"Wozolek’s questions—'How will I know when I’m ready? When will it be time?'—has been haunting me since I read her book. From being invited into memories from her dream about history, belonging, and despair, to being immersed in stories about engagements with violence, racism, and hope, this book presents a powerful discussion about relationships between schools and communities; about living, learning, and teaching; and about the perpetuation of systemic injustices. It offers us hope for deeply addressing and eradicating harms that get enacted onto people within one too many schools. Read this book and be even more encouraged to work for educational equity and justice."
--Valerie Kinloch, Dean for the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh
