Reauthoring Savage Inequalities

<p><b>Offers rich wide-ranging counternarratives to social political and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers students and families use to succeed and thrive.</b></p><p><i>Reauthoring</i> Savage Inequalities brings together scholars educators practitioners and students to counter dominant narratives of urban educational environments. Using a community cultural wealth lens contributors center the strategies actions and ways of knowing communities of color use to resist systemic oppression. So often discussions of urban schooling are filled with stories of what Jonathan Kozol famously referred to as savage inequalities in his 1991 book of the same title-with tales of deficiency and despair. The counternarratives in this volume grapple with the inequalities highlighted by Kozol. Yet in foregrounding lived experiences of educating and being educated in schools and communities that were systemically isolated and disenfranchised then and continue to be thirty years later <i>Reauthoring</i> Savage Inequalities brings nuance to depictions of teaching and learning in urban areas. In nineteen essays as well as commentaries a foreword and an afterword contributors engage readers in critical dialogue about the importance of community cultural wealth. They identify the sources of support that enable students staff parents and community members to succeed and thrive despite the purposeful divestment in communities of color across this nation's cities.</p>