Social Justice in Action

Addressing both veterans of justice work and novices seeking points of entry, the essays in this volume showcase practical approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion: ways to build community, earn trust, tell unheard stories, and develop solutions to problems. Interspersed are brief reflections that offer testimony and inspiration.

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Essays and reflections to spark work toward change

Addressing both veterans of justice work and novices seeking points of entry, the essays in this volume showcase practical approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion: ways to build community, earn trust, tell unheard stories, and develop solutions to problems. Emphasizing values such as empathy, self-reflection, and integrity, the volume is rooted in humanities work but also features contributions from fields as diverse as the performing arts, architecture, and evolutionary biology and represents settings beyond the college campus, such as schools, libraries, museums, and prisons. While bringing insights from higher education, it critiques the system as well, exploring the ways that institutions reinforce power structures and exclude marginalized voices. Interspersed with the essays, brief reflections by activists and artists offer testimony and inspiration.

Neal A. Lester, "Introduction"; Ronald Mason, Jr., "The Cost of the System of White Supremacy"; David Pilgrim, "Our Turn"; John Streamas, "Overselling Higher Education to Communities of Color"; Anke Pinkert, "Social Justice Ecologies: Charting Routes for Public Humanities and Postprison Education"; Jess Roberts, "Earned Trust and Albion's Big Read"; Josh Greene, "The Power of Design Justice"; Lore/tta Lemaster, "After Inclusion: A Trans Relational Meditation on (Un)Belonging"; Simon J. Ortiz, "Into the Fray: Let's Go Forward into Justice and Topics Far Reaching"; Austin Davis, "Phoenix"; Nikki Giovanni, "You Do . . . and So Do We"; Maureen T. Reddy, "The Uses and Abuses of Privilege"; Anthony Q. Hazard, Jr., "Teaching Whiteness Studies in the Twenty-First Century"; Leslie Singel and Ash Evans, "Dwelling in the Borders: Scoring Fairly in Advanced Placement Writing"; Jami Proctor Xu, "Listening to and Hearing Others"; Nathan McCullough-Haddix, "Starting with the Children"; Dianne McIntyre, "Social Justice of the Heart"; Gabriele Maier and Sébastien Dubreil, "Engaging Social Justice Transculturally in a Team-Taught Language Course"; Laurie Grobman, Heidi Mau, and Cheryl L. Nicholas, "Social Justice Pedagogy and Collaborative Counterstorytelling: We Are Reading"; Tara Roeder, "Incorporating Antispeciesism in Social Justice Praxis"; Cynthia M. Landrum and Nicole A. Cooke, "Reimagining Social Justice in Public Libraries: A Conversation"; Spencer Crew, "The Social Responsibility of Museums"; Dontá McGilvery, "Absent Justice"; Jane Elliott, "Five Things about the Concept of Justice"; Andrea E. Brewster, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jennifer Merritt Faria, "Social Justice Required? Faculty and Student Engagement with University-Wide Learning Objectives"; Leigh Ann Litwiller Berte, "A Pedagogy of Solutions: Promoting Problem-Solving in Social Justice Teaching"; Joseph L. Graves, Jr., "The Evolutionary Science of Social Justice"; Harry Lennix, "Actorvism = Actor + Activism"; Multicultural Solidarity Coalition, "Burning It Down Means Building Community"; Neal A. Lester, "Project Humanities: A Model of Community Engagement