Born Out of Struggle

Critical Race Theory, School Creation, and the Politics of Interruption

David Omotoso Stovall

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781438459141, 9781438459134
• eBook ISBN: 9781438459158
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

Rooted in the initial struggle of community members who staged a successful hunger strike to secure a high school in their Chicago neighborhood, David Omotoso Stovall's Born Out of Struggle focuses on his first-hand participation in the process to help design the school. Offering important lessons about how to remain accountable to communities while designing a curriculum with a social justice agenda, Stovall explores the use of critical race theory to encourage its practitioners to spend less time with abstract theories and engage more with communities that make a concerted effort to change their conditions. Stovall provides concrete examples of how to navigate the constraints of working with centralized bureaucracies in education and apply them to real-world situations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Responsibility to the Word: Into the Work of Putting Our Theories to Practice
• Chapter 1 Hunger Strike: History, Community Struggle, and Political Gamesmanship
• Chapter 2 To Create a School: Uneasy Partnerships with the Central Office
• Chapter 3 Counterstory as Praxis: Confronting Success and Failure on the Design Team
• Chapter 4 Paper Proposals Do Not Equal Real Life: Race Praxis and High School Creation
• Chapter 5 Educational Debt Relief: Classroom Struggles, Critical Race Praxis, and the Politics of School
• Chapter 6 Struggle, Failure, and Reflection in the First Cycle (2003–2009): Practical Lessons in Creating a School
• Chapter 7 Always on the Run: School Struggle in Perpetuity
• Epilogue
• Glossary of Acronyms
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back Cover