1st Edition
Black Appetite. White Food. Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom
Introduction; Part I: Naming the Problem; 1. Vision-Driven Justice; 2. Black Appetite, White Food; 3. If You Think You’re Giving Students of Color a Voice, Get Over Yourself!; 4. Your Pedagogy Might Be More Aligned with Colonialism Than You Realize; 5. Why Did All the Black Students Boycott My Classroom?; Part II: Tools for Analysis and Action; 6. T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E., Black Girl Magic, and Harry Potter; 7. The Politics of Ratchetness; 8. Critical Hope in the Context of Crisis; 9. Why I Started Using Cyphers for Justice; Afterword
Biography
Jamila Lyiscott is an author, a community-engaged scholar, and a nationally acclaimed speaker. She serves as an assistant professor of Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is the founding co-director of the forthcoming Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research. Her scholarship and activism work together to explore, assert, and defend the value of Black life throughout and beyond the field of education. Jamila’s current research focuses on the power of youth-led social research and activism to foster racial healing across schools and communities. She is most well-known for being featured on Ted.com where her video, "3 Ways to Speak English," was viewed over 4.6 million times. Learn more about Jamila at jamilalyiscott.com and @jamila_lyiscott on Twitter and Instagram.
