Reauthoring Savage Inequalities

Lori D. Patton is Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs and Chair for the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. Ishwanzya D. Rivers is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Evaluation, and Organizational Development at the University of Louisville. Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton is Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Joi D. Lewis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joi Unlimited and the Founder and President of Healing Justice Foundation.

Foreword
William T. Trent
Introduction
Lori D. Patton, Ishwanzya D. Rivers, Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton, and Joi D. Lewis

Part 1. Resilience, Wholeness, and Thriving in Urban Schools (Self)

1. Peering Back in a Press Forward: Critiques of Educational Equality that Protect White Innocence
Chayla Haynes

2. Displaced Equalities: Exploring the Impact of Place on Urban Students
Jada Renee Koushik

3. Persisting through Life as a Result of My Urban Education: The Making of a Black Male Professor
Omari Jackson

Guest Commentary and Reflection: We Know Best What Tools and Resources Will Sustain Us
Dorinda J. Carter Andrews

Part 2. The Urban Community as Educator (Community)

4. Chicago’s Other Children
Mirelsie Velazquez

5. Far from Savage: (Re)Turning to My Village and Revealing the “Two Worlds of Washington”
Steve D. Mobley Jr.

6. A Third-World City: An Autoethnography on Growing Up in Detroit, Michigan, and Becoming a Teacher
Amber C. Bryant

Guest Commentary and Reflection: The Complexity and Nuances of Origin Stories
Marvin Lynn

Part 3. Centering Students in Teaching and Learning (Students)

7. “People Don’t Really Know Camden High”: Student Perspectives on their Negatively Viewed High School
Keith Benson with help from Deliyah Whetstone, Tina Q. Baker, Merv Ragsdale, T’emon’et Elliot, Joel Tarte, Dwyane Cooke, Naima Battie, Ajianna Bailey, Joselyn Chevere, Rasheed Pollard, Ijshanna Martin, and Brene’ Troutman

8. No Excuses: Believing and Achieving
Jane Bean-Folkes, Susan Browne, and Chanelle Rose

9. Avenues to Organic Engagement: One Counselor-Educator’s Experiences Working with Community Agencies to Promote Educational Success in an Urban Community
Ahmad R. Washington

Guest Commentary and Reflection: There’s More to the Story: Counter-Narrating Urban Failure and Success
Noelle W. Arnold

Part 4. Reflections on Educator and Institutional Influences (Educators)

10. Fictive Kin as Driving Forces for Academic Success in Detroit: Black Women’s Narratives on Successfully Navigating through College
Diane Fuselier-Thompson, Ezella McPherson, and Carly Braxton

11. “Old School” Urban Education: How Friends, Families, Communities, and Teachers Support Success in Early Childhood
Theresa J. Canada

12. “I Have Seen the Mountaintop”: Intersectionality and the Auto-ethnography of a Mediocre Student at a Gifted School
Heather Moore Roberson

13. Dispelling the Myth of Despair and Hopelessness: How Ethical Leadership Creates a Counter-Narrative to Kozol’s Leadership Caricature
Lonnie R. Morris Jr. and Maceo A. Cooper-Jenkins

Guest Commentary and Reflection: Same Place, Different Race
H. Rich Milner IV

Part 5. Renarrativizing “Home” (Place)

14. And Still We Made It: Counter-Narratives of Success, Educational Attainment, and Opportunity in Atlanta
Brittany M. Williams and Lyntoria Newton

15. In Search of Oz: Culture, Education, and Counter-Narratives of Inequity in Southern Colored Schools
Toby S. Jenkins

16. Bringing the Love Back Home: An Ode to the Wiz and Growing Up in East St. Louis
Jodi L. Jordan, Deborah J. Patton, and Lori D. Patton

Guest Commentary and Reflection: Emerald City, Oz, and Savage Inequalities in Education: Centering the Ruby Slippers
Theodorea Berry

Part 6. Sunday Dinners with Love

17. The Meaning of Sunday Dinners
Raquel L. Farmer-Hinton

18. East St Louis: Where Our Black Lives Always Mattered
Dallas Jewell Watson and Joi D. Lewis

19. We Were Always a Community: Cooking, Eating, and Living in the John DeShields Housing Project
Ishwanzya D. Rivers

Guest Commentary and Reflection: “You Can’t Keep Telling Us What We Already Know”: A Fugitive End to Educational Narratives of Tragedy
David Stovall

Afterword
Tara J. Yosso
Contributors
Index