Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education

Edited by Kenjus T. Watson, School of Education, American University, Washington D.C., Nora Cisneros, Department of Ethnic Studies, California State University, Bakersfield, Lindsay Pérez Huber, College of Education, California State University, Long Beach, and Verónica Vélez, Woodring Collective of Education, Western Washington University, US

Contents:

Foreword: the before, beyond, and elsewhere of refusal xvi
Sandy Grande
Artist’s statement xix
Marion Parajes
Like a path in tall grasses: introducing the Handbook of Race and
Refusal in Higher Education xx
Race and Refusal Collective: Nora Cisneros, Lindsay Pérez Huber, Verónica
Vélez, and Kenjus T. Watson

PART I REFUSAL ALONG THE PATH
Introduction to Part I 2
Race and Refusal Collective
1 Freedom dreaming: visions of refusal and collectivity from the
past, present, and future 5
Tanya J. Gaxiola Serrano, Socorro Morales, and Alma Itzé Flores
2 My journey in the tall grass of resistance and refusal: from
race, ethnic, and gender studies to Freirean critical pedagogy
to critical race theory to the RAC 25
Daniel G. Solorzano
3 Disrupting the novice/master dichotomy as refusal: a critical
race counterstory about mentoring 42
Michael W. Moses II
4 Letters to our children: mothering in the academy and a global
pandemic 58
Alma Itzé Flores and Mercedes Valadez
5 The spectacle of chicanx system-impacted youth: my path
towards refusal 79
María C. Malagón
6 The political economy of military recruitment and education
privatisation 92
Nina Monet Reynoso

PART II ABOLITION AND FUGITIVITY: INVESTMENTS
IN THE ‘NOT YET’
Introduction to Part II 106
Race and Refusal Collective
7 the canary 112
Alexander Morrison Henry (henry poetry)
8 Abolition, BlackCrit and the perpetual necessity of refusal in
education: a necessary path forward 120
David Stovall
9 The Black smugglers of higher education: how Black students,
scholars, and faculty members disrupt schooling institutions to
educate Black youth 128
Earl J. Edwards and Elianny C. Edwards
10 Black feminist otherwise: within and against the university 142
Mary Senyonga
11 Lessons learned: Black student leadership and the progressive
university 159
J.P. Lesure
12 No university at the end of the world: notes towards an
abolitionist university 174
Gene McAdoo
13 Embracing revolt & exile: a conversation on the perpetual
refusal of the academy 187
edxi, (J)une Bee, and Estelle Ellison

PART III DECOLONIZATION AND FUTURITIES
Introduction to Part III 211
Race and Refusal Collective
14 A shattered Coyolxauhqui writes her heart whole: on refusing
colonisation and fragmentation in creative writing 214
Elizabeth Parker Garcia
15 Decolonising higher education (we) through a collaborative
(us) program-wide approach 228
Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn, M. Billye Sankofa Waters, and
Christopher B. Knaus
16 From compliance culture to liberatory access: reimagining
disabled & deaf futurities on college campuses and beyond 241
Anna Acha and Danielle Mireles
17 Recipe for ritual 269
Andii H.
18 Creating a pedagogy of Afro-Indigenous epistemic
disobedience: notes on reimaging care and healing in education 271
Cindy Bonaparte
19 dancing in the wake | like moss over modernity 281
simple ant
20 Drawing from the Well: ‘I never remember hearing that
healing was going to feel good.’ 294
Tiffani Marie, Kenjus T. Watson, and Jewell Bachelor
21 Where might we go from here? An inconclusive conclusion to
the Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education 318
Race and Refusal Collective and Race and Refusal Handbook
Contributors

Index 327