Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice

By Jesse Hagopian and Denisha Jones

This book explores:

 

The state of institutional racism in the schools, including stories and statistics that explain the Black experience in school

The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and its influence on youth and educators

The explosion of racist hate speech in the Trump era and its impact on education

The origins of the BLM at School movement in Seattle

The major role of Philadelphia educators in helping the movement go national and expanding it to a week of action.

Explain, using stories and data, what each of the four demands of BLM at School mean(End “zero tolerance” discipline and implement restorative justice; hire more black teachers; and mandate Black history and ethnic studies in K-12 curriculum; Fund Counselors, Not Cops).

The challenges and opportunities of organizing non-Black educators into theBLM at School movement and the role of white educators. As the majority of educators in the country are white we recognize the importance of bringing white educators into this movement.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Release date: Dec 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781642593891