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Working From Within: Chicana and Chicano Activist Educators in Whitestream Schools
A peculiar tension has always existed between activist educators working in public and higher education. Maybe it is the contradiction of cultivating consciousness of youth while being on the payroll of institutions (and certainly the state) that seldom believe in such politically minded pursuits.
Continue reading...Girls Are Not Chicks – Coloring Book
12. November 2009
Ballerina's with wrenches, a stubborn Miss Muffet and high heel cloning projects are just 3 of the 27 gender bending scenarios in Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak's Girl's are not Chick's coloring book. A yellow front and back cover is filled with multi-colored stars, the front featuring an upside down chick and on the flip side, a broken shell with the following definition
Continue reading...Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca
19. May 2009
Organizers often forget the importance of the imagination. Though cadre may be able to articulate points in Capital, it's the masses who dream for brighter futures for their children that provide the numbers movements need to succeed. And when things look difficult, the imagination helps keep participants focused. One example of this observation was the protest effort in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Continue reading...The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
5. April 2009
Henry Giroux's ground-breaking and timeless entry, The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex, could be the single reason why "higher" education might be saved from the hands of corporatization and militarization. Giroux, a leading figure in education, media studies, cultural studies, and critical theory, begins the book with one of the most profound questions I have ever come across.
Continue reading...Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy
21. March 2009
Contemporary Anarchist Studies brings together an amazing selection of articles by some of todays most prominent anarchist theorists covering an array of topics in relation to anarchist studies from animal liberation to disability studies. It is written from a theoretical perspective, but for activists and academics alike.
Continue reading...Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire: Toward a new Humanism
16. March 2009
Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo's Pedagogy and Praxis in the Age of Empire (PPAE) best collects their founding theoretical work on the post-9/11, emergent international anti-capitalist/imperialist movement that reflects an active example of revolutionary critical pedagogy.
Continue reading...One Paradigm, Many Worlds: Conflict Resolution across the Disciplines
8. February 2009
One Paradigm, Many Worlds: Conflict Resolution across the Disciplines has one goal and that is to demonstrate that the paradigm of collaborative conflict resolution has a broad application across the social sciences. Edited by Mitchell Rosenwald, the book is a collection of essays written by various scholars from disciplines like: human services, elementary and secondary education, higher education, philosophy, and international relations.
Continue reading...It’s My Life! A Guide to Alternatives After High School
8. February 2009
From the Noble Peace Prize winning American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) comes It's My Life! an outstanding resource for any middle school, high school, community center, religion center, peace organization, and even youth detention facility. As a teacher at a youth detention facility I order ten of these amazing books to use every month.
Continue reading...- Girls Are Not Chicks - Coloring Book
- The Jena 6
- A Movement of Movements: Is another world really possible?
- The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther
- Behind the Mask
- On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Twenty-First Century Lynching
- Earthlings
- The Will to Resist
- The Lifelong Activist: Changing the World Without Losing Your Way
- The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
- Cath: I've had Get it Ripe for a few months now. And yes...
- Abbey: I'm just beginning to read this. I love Todd May's...
- Anthony Nocella: A really good book, which I enjoyed. It is helpful...
- GARY CHADWICK: TAKE IT FROM ME.ITS NOT JUST A BLACK OR ANY RACIAL...
- Jake Last: now this is a book I must read!!!...
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27. November 2009
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