Repertoires of Racial Resistance

Pedagogical Dreaming in Transborder Educational Spaces

Miguel N. Abad, Gilberto Q. Conchas, Miguel N. Abad, Gilberto Q. Conchas

• Publisher: Myers Education Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781975506629
• eBook ISBN: 9781975506643
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Multicultural Education

Repertories of Racial Resistance: Pedagogical Dreaming in Transborder Educational Spaces explores the integral role of dreaming and imagination in pursuing educational justice. The illuminating case studies in this book highlight how youth and adults utilize Transformative Methodologies not only to generate knowledge, but also promote social change. Transformative Methodologies are approaches to research and knowledge production that explicitly:

• center the perspectives, experiences, and expertise of BIPOC youth and communities as essential to research
• challenge conventional social science frameworks that relegate communities as "objects" of inquiry, and
• facilitate ethnically and racially minoritized young people to leverage their educational opportunities to express their agency, imagine emancipatory futures, and embody social change.

Chapters in the book demonstrate how researchers, practitioners, and youth utilize methodologies such as participatory action research, testimonials, counter narratives and critical storytelling to make sense of social inequalities and envision futures rooted in justice. This text considers the intimate relationship between youth leadership and empowerment with dreaming and imagination. The book includes case studies based in diverse contexts such as K-12 schools, community-based settings, and higher education. Moreover, the text specifically highlights how BIPOC young people leverage their imaginations as part of their efforts to advocate for justice in their communities, families, and schools. This book emphasizes the importance for researchers and practitioners to leverage youth imagination and freedom dreams in creating culturally sustaining educational settings and promoting transformative youth leadership. This volume will be of interest to graduate, postgraduate students, researchers and academics in fields such as multicultural education, critical pedagogy, youth development and qualitative and participatory methodologies. Pre-service teachers, practitioners, and libraries will also find this book useful.

Perfect for courses such as: Multicultural Education, Foundations of Education, Critical Pedagogy and Education, Youth Development, Out of School Time Education, Research Methodology, Anthropology and Education, Sociology and Education, and Youth Resistance

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Series Foreword
• Introduction Repertoires of Racial Resistance and Pedagogical Dreaming from the Classroom to the Streets
• Chapter 1 Fostering Belonging: How Yemeni Boys Create Counterspaces in a NYC High School
• Chapter 2 Youth Participatory Action Research and Student Resistance: Envisioning for College Food Security for All
• Chapter 3 Making Mundo Nuevo: Chicana/Latina Daughters Enacting Chicana/a/o/x and Latina/o/x Immigrant Educational Futurities and Possibilities Through Spiritual Activism and Transformative Ruptures
• Chapter 4 Community, Care, and Relational Practice: Reimagining Freedom Dreaming in a Difficult Dialogues Program
• Chapter 5 Resisting Exclusion: The Civic Engagement of a Female Muslim American Student Leader
• Chapter 6 Championing Disruptive Dreaming Among Students: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Adult Allies
• Chapter 7 “We Don’t See That in Our History Books…” Dialect07 Conversations on Designing for Collective Social Dreaming in History Education
• Chapter 8 Dreaming Otherwise: Creative Policy Negotiation and Creating Communities of Recognition for Multilingual Immigrant Youth
• Chapter 9 Dreamweaving Youth Expressions Through Multimedia Methodologies: “The Words That They Were Never Told and Were Wishing To Hear”
• Chapter 10 Questioning with Love: Developing Racial Literacy to Disrupt Racism
• Chapter 11 Dreaming of Different Pasts, Presents, & Futures: Filipino & Cambodian American Youth-Led Art & Organizing in California
• Chapter 12 A Collective Dreaming Process: Reimagining Youth Space to Facilitate Latinx Youth Critical Consciousness Towards Educational Injustice and Anti-Immigrant Politics
• Chapter 13 Reimagining Life After High School: Black and Latinx Students’ Experience in a (Virtual) Counter-Space
• Chapter 14 The Politics of Faith: Father Luce and the 1968 High School Blowouts in East Los Angeles
• Chapter 15 Dreamers Rise: A High School Pre-College Program for Undocumented Students in Wisconsin
• About the Authors
• Index