1st Edition
No One Can Arrest Our Dreams Black Men Storying a Path Toward Educational Justice and Freedom
An Important Author’s Note
Introduction Storying Dreams in Black Education
1. Living and Learning in the Carceral Matrix
Storied Reflection Remembering Relationships With/In Spaces
2. Navigating the Fork in the Road
Storied Reflection Teaching in Real Time
3. Survival Mode
Storied Reflection Trouble Around the Corner
4. Restoring Broken Dreams
Conclusion Storytelling for Educational Justice
Something to Tell My Mom: An Autoethnography of Teaching in the Prison Education Program
A Note on Narrative Inquiry
Acknowledgements
References
Biography
Clarice O. Thomas, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies & School of Education at Saint Louis University. She is the director of the Teaching Well Institute for School Transformation (TWIST) and teaches courses in the Prison Education Program. Dr. Thomas’s research has focused on storytelling for social justice in teacher education and improving racial justice in mass incarceration issues. She is the recipient of a PEN America Writing for Justice Fellowship to advance her work that examines the impact of multigenerational incarceration on Black families and communities in the United States.
