Theories
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re/thinking temporality
Greg Jobin-Leeds and AgitArte. 2016. “Grounded in Community: The Fight for the Soul of Public Education” in When We Fight, We Win! Twenty-First Century Social Movements That Are Transforming Our World. The New Press.
Rasheedah Phillips. 2016. “Future” in Fritsch, Kelly, Clare O'Connor, and A. K. Thompson (eds). Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle. AK Press.
Mark Rifkin. 2017. Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination. Ch. 1 “Indigenous Orientations,” pp. 1-47. Duke U Press.
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THE CRISES “AGAIN”
John Clarke. 2010. "Of crises and conjunctures: The problem of the present." Journal of Communication Inquiry 34, no. 4: 337-354.
Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin. 2015. “Displacing Neoliberalism” (pp. 191-221) in Stuart Hall et al. (eds), After Neoliberalism: The Kilburn Manifesto.Soundings.
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Contemporary Struggles
“The 1619 project.” NY Times Magazine. Full PDF
Robin D.G. Kelley. 2016. “Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back” in Boston Review forum, “After Trump.” https://bostonreview.net/forum/after-trump/robin-d-g-kelley-trump-says-go-back-we-say-fight-back (see more responses by following the link)
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. 2016. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Ch. 6, “Black Lives Matter: A Movement, Not a Moment,” pp. 153-190. Haymarket Books.
“War, Peace and Global Justice”recorded panel with Johana Fernandez, Glen Ford, Vijay Prashad, and George Cicarello-Maher at Reclaiming Our Future: The Black Radical Tradition in Our Timesconference at Temple University, January 7-10, 2016. [1hr35min]
Robin Truth Goodman. 2013. Gender Work: Feminism After Neoliberalism. Ch. 5 “Gender Work: Feminism After Neoliberalism,” pp. 139-173. Palgrave McMillan.
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Paradigms of political action
Audre Lorde. 1984. “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” Sister Outsider. Ten Speed Press.
Carol Mueller. 2004. “Ella Baker and the Origins of ‘Participatory Democracy’” in Jacqueline Bobo et al. (eds), The Black Studies Reader, pp. 79-90.
Susan Stall and Randy Stoecker. 1998. “Community Organizing or Organizing Community? Gender and the Crafts of Empowerment.” Gender &Society. 12(6): 729-756.
Astra Taylor. 2016. “Against Activism” The Baffler: http://thebaffler.com/salvos/against-activism
Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. 2012. “Decolonization is not a metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), pp. 1-40.
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Manifestos of/for the Moment
“The Combahee River Collective Statement” and “Barbara Smith” in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (ed.). 2017. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, pp. 15-28 and 29-71. Haymarket Books.
The Council of the Red Nation.2015.“Native Liberation Struggles in North America: The Red Nation 10-point Program.”
See also: #StandingRockSyllabus. 2016.
Alyson Escalante. 2016. “Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto.”
Johanna Hedva. 2014. “Sick woman theory.”Mask Magazine.
“The Queer Nation Manifesto.”1990.
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Movement Cultures
Alicia Garza. 2017. “Our cynicism will not build a movement. Collaboration will.” Mic.
David Graeber. 2009. Direct Action: An Ethnography. Ch. 5, “Direct Action, Anarchism, Direct Democracy” and Ch. 6, “Some Notes on ‘Activist Culture’,” (focus on 239-256 of Ch. 6).
Loretta Ross. 2019. “I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture is Toxic.”NY Times. Aug. 17, 2019.
“Transformative justice in an era of mass incarceration with Mariame Kaba and Victoria Law” episode of Center for Constitutional Rights The Activist Files podcast. March 14, 2019. [56 min] Episode website and link to episode on Apple podcasts.
Aja Romano. 2018. “Hopepunk, the latest storytelling trend, is all about weaponized optimism.” Vox.
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theorizing Resistance and Education
Henry Giroux. 2001. “Reproduction, Resistance & Accommodation in the Schooling Process” in Theory and Resistance in Education: Toward a Pedagogy for the Opposition. Bergin & Garvey Press.
Philadelphia Contexts
Matthew Countryman. 2005. Up South, Ch. 6 “Community Control of the Schools,” pp. 223-257. Penn Press.
Kristina Rizga. 2016. “Black Teachers Matter.” Mother Jones.
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Contemporary Struggles
Susan Booysen (ed). 2016. Fees must fall: student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa. Ch. 2, “The roots of the revolution,” pp. 54-73, Ch. 3, “The game’s the same: ‘Must Fall’ moves to Euro-America,” pp. 74-86, and Ch. 6, “Standing on the shoulders of giants? Successive generations of youth sacrifice in South Africa,” pp. 126-147.
Eve L. Ewing. 2018. Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side. Ch 3. “Dueling Realities” and Ch. 4 “Mourning,” pp. 94-156. U Chicago Press.
Movement For Black Lives. 2016. “A Vision For Black Lives.” 2016. The Movement For Black Lives’ policy platform related to education. [On Canvas: M4BL Education Plan]
“The Problem We All Live With,” a two-part series of This American Life podcast focusing on segregation in U.S. schools. Part One (7.31.2015) and Part Two (8.7.2015).[56 min]
Precious Knowledge (2011), film detailing the banning of the Mexican American Studies program in Tucson Arizona. [70 min] View here.
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Abolitionism
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten. 2013. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, Ch. 2. “The University and the Undercommons,” pp. 25-43. Minor Composition.
Abigail Boggs et al. 2019. “Abolition University Studies: An Invitation” from Abolition University—studying within/ against/beyond the university.
Bettina Love. 2019. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Ch. 5, “Abolitionist Teaching, Freedom Dreaming, and Black Joy,” pp. 88-123. Beacon.
“Restorative Justice in School: An Overview,” an episode of The Cult of Pedagogy podcast. Feb. 17, 2018. Episode website and link to Apple podcasts.
primers
“Power” in Encyclopedia of Political Theory
Christian Scholl. 2016. “Prefiguration” in Fritsch, Kelly, Clare O'Connor, and A. K. Thompson (eds). Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle. AK Press.
adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha. 2015. “Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements.” AK Press. Selections.
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Re/imagining power
Frances Fox Piven. 2008. “Can Power from Below Change the World?” American Sociological Review.
John Holloway. 2002. Change the World without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today, Ch. 3. “Beyond Power?,” pp. 19-42. Pluto.
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Praxes
Charlene Carruthers. 2018. Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, Ch. 4, “Three Commitments,” and Ch. 5, “Five Questions” pp. 63-110. Beacon Press.
adrienne maree brown. 2017. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Selections: “principles of emergent strategy,” “intentional adaptation: how we change,” and “interdependence and decentralization: who we are and how we share,” pp. 41-42; 67-83; 83-103. AK Press.
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Transformative Movement Building
Regotsofetse Chikane. 2018. “Should Coconuts be trusted with the revolution?” Chapter 16 in Breaking a Rainbow Building a Nation: The politics behind #MustFall Movements. Picador Africa. pp. 233
Patrisse Cullors. 2019. “Abolition and Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice and Accountability.” Harvard Law Review.
Antony Dapiran. Aug. 1, 2019. “‘Be Water!’: seven tactics that are winning Hong Kong’s democracy revolution.”New Statesman.
Jacqueline Villarrubia-Mendoza and Roberto Vélez-Vélez. Aug. 24 2019. “Puerto Rico: The Shift from Mass Protests to People’s Assemblies.”Portside.
Youth United for Change. 2019. “Y’all Tryna Win or Nah? Lessons on Organization Development and Youth Organizing on Shifting Terrain.”
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Re/imagining engagement, communities, publics
Eve Tuck. 2009. “Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities.” Harvard Educational Review, vol. 79, no. 3, pp. 409–428.
M.E. Torre et al. 2012. Critical participatory action research as public science. In Camic, P. & Cooper, H. (Eds.). The handbook of qualitative research in psychology: Expanding perspectives in methodology and design, 2nd edition (pp. 171-184).
Michael Warner. 2002. “Publics and Counterpublics” Public Culture, Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 2002, pp. 49-90.
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Academic Freedom in the Digital Age
Michael Bérubé. 2019. MLA Profession. “Talking out of School: Academic Freedom and Extramural Speech.”
Judith Butler. 2018. Chronicle of Higher Education. “The Criminalization of Knowledge.”
Steven Salaita. 2019. Chronicle of Higher Education. “My Life as a Cautionary Tale: Probing the Limits of academic freedom.”
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Penn and Philadelphia Communities
Penn and Slavery
Vanjessica Gladney. Feb. 28 2018. “We Challenged Penn to Reexamine Its History of Slavery—And Our Project Isn't Over.”34thStreet.
Abul-Aliy Muhammad. July 21 2019. “As reparations debate continues, the University of Pennsylvania has a role to play.” The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Modeling Community and Public Engagement
The Marian Cheek Jackson Center: Soundwalk of Northside
Morris Justice Project (Bronx, New York)
Taja Lindley: The Bag Lady Manifesta. “This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering.” (Running time: 10 min)
Rasheeda Phillips: Community Futures Lab (North Philadelphia)
Torn Apart/Separados mapping project
Praxes
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Pantsuit Politics. (Producer). Sept. 19, 2019. Five Things You Need to Know About Labor Unions [Audio podcast].
Rosemary Feurer & Chad Pearson. 2018. Five Ways Bosses Fight Labor. Jacobin Magazine.
Barry Eidlin. 2017. Labor’s Legitimacy Crisis Under Trump. Jacobin Magazine.
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (Producer). 2013. PFT History: Solidarity Wins! [Web Video].
Avi Wolfman-Arent. 2018. Pa. teachers unions could feel brunt of Supreme Court decision. WHYY PBS.
Rodriguez-McGil, M. (Writer), & Speer, J. (Director). April 18, 2013. Ludlow Massacre. [Television series episode]. Colorado Experience. Rocky Mountain PBS.
Kate Rousmaniere. 2005. Chicago Teachers Federation. In Encyclopedia of Chicago.
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Collective Bargaining
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. 2019. CB Team Accomplishments [Web Page]. Collective Bargaining Team.
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Health & Welfare Fund. Sept. 2019. Healthy Schools Action Plan: Asbestos Crisis in Philly Schools.
Dale Mezzacappa. August 15, 2016. State Supreme Court rules in favor of PFT in contract case. TheNotebook.org.
Working Educators
Kristen A. Graham. Feb. 6, 2018. Black Lives Matter Week of Action, born in Philly, goes national. The Inquirer.
Payne Schroeder. Nov. 18, 2014. Caucus of teachers’ union focused on social justice holds first conference. TheNotebook.org.
Greg Windle. April 15, 2019. Educators tell Council to end 10-year tax abatement with support from gallery. TheNotebook.org.
Kathleen Melville. March 22, 2016. On Unions and Gyms: A Teacher Works to Make Her Union Stronger. EducationWeek.
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Nira Yuval-Davis. 2006. Belonging and The Politics of Belonging. Patterns of Prejudice. 40(3),197-214.
Roger D. Simon. 2017. Chapter 3: “Industry Triumph/Civic Failure”, In Philadelphia : A brief history.
John R. Norwood. 2007 . Preface (p. 5); Fallacy of “None Left Behind” (p. 23-24); Fallacy of the “Federal Standard” (p. 24-26); Fallacy of “Giving Sovereignty” (p. 26-27) In We Are Still Here: The Tribal Saga of New Jersey’s Nanticoke and Lenape Indians. Native New Jersey Publications.
“Lenape Indians, The Original Philadelphians” (7-minute audio recording)
Marcus Anthony Hunter. 2013. If These Row Homes Could Talk. In Black Citymakers (pp. 3–20).
Natasha Iskander, Nichola Lowe & Christine Riordan. 2010. The Rise and Fall of a Micro-Learning Region: Mexican Immigrants and Construction in Center-South Philadelphia. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 42(7), 1595–1612.
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George Lipsitz. 2011. “Black Spatial Imaginary” in How Racism Takes Place. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. p. 51-70.
Liz Przybylski. 2015. Indigenous Survivance and Urban Musical Practice. Revue de Recherche en Civilisation Américaine [English], no. 5. (p. 1-14)
Shannon Gleeson & Prerna Sampat. 2018. Immigrant Resistance in the Age of Trump. New Labor Forum, 27(1), 86–95.
Amanda Holpuch. Oct. 18, 2018. “Resistance Zone’: the neighborhood where people train to confront ICE”. The Guardian.
Prudence Carter. 2003. “Black” Cultural Capital, Status Positioning, and Schooling Conflicts for Low-Income African American Youth. Social Problems, 50(1), pp. 136-155.
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LOCAL VOICES: PODCASTS
Beth McConnell. Gentrification & Cultural Displacement in Philadelphia. JumpstartGermantown. Podcast Audio. June 30, 2009.
Paul Farber. For Freedoms Across 50 States with Artist Hank Willis Thomas. Monument Lab. Podcast Audio. Sept. 30, 2018.
Sergio Cea. #5 True Sanctuary, featuring Miguel Andrade- Juntos Communications Manager. Reclaim Philadelphia. Podcast Audio. April 17, 2019.
LOCAL VOICES: Videos
Andrew Ferrett, dir. & Sam Katz, prod. May 2014. “A Lost World (1600-1680).” [Episode]. Philadelphia: The Great Experiment [Series]. Historic Makings Productions. Web Video.
Patty Talahongva, dir. and Lucy Williams, exec. prod. 2011. Dance With Me: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey. Penn Museum. Web Video.
Vanessa Graeber, host. 2014. (ho. “Opposition to Temple Stadium in North Philadelphia.” [Episode]. People Power Lunch Hour. [Series]. Philly Cam. Video Recording.
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Student walkouts
Eliza Shapiro. 2019. “Lock-Ins and Walkouts. The Students Changing City Schools from the Inside”
Olivia Waxman. 2018. “National Student Walkout Day.” Time Magazine.
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Youth activism
Jessica Taft. 2010. “The Street Is Our Classroom: A Politics of Learning or We Are Not the Future: Claiming Youth Authority” in Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change in the Americas
Andreana Clay. 2012. “Introduction.” The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back: Youth, Activism and Post-Civil Rights Politics
Hava Rachel Gordan. 2009. “Reading, Writing, and Radicalism: The Politics of Youth Activism on School Grounds” in We fight to win: Inequality and the Politics of Youth Activism.
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Local Histories of youth activism
Clara Luper. 1979. "Behold the Walls.” (Reprinted in An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before).
Karen Brodkin. 2001. “Introduction.” Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles.
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Impact of school closures
Matthew P. Steinberg and John M. MacDonald. 2019. "The effects of closing urban schools on students’ academic and behavioral outcomes: Evidence from Philadelphia." Economics of Education Review 69 (2019): 25-60.
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Philadelphia School closures
John Rury & Shirley Hill. 2012. “An End of Innocence: African American High School Protest in the 60’s and 70’s.” History of Education.
Kristen Graham. 2017. “These Philly schoolkids marched against injustice 50 years ago, and police responded with nightsticks. Today, they inspire a new generation.” The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Notebook staff. 2013. “Saying goodbye to 24 Philadelphia Schools.” The Notebook.
Dan Stamm. 2013. “23 Philly Schools Slated to Close” NBC (video)
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Monuments and memorials
Kat Chow, Leah Donella, & Gene Dembey. 2017. “What Our Monuments (Don’t) Teach Us about Remembering the Past.” NPR.
Dell Upton. 2015. “Introduction.” What Can and Can’t Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South. Yale University Press.
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Current memorial projects
Campbell Robertson. 2018. “A Lynching Memorial is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.” New York Times.
2018. “Creative Speculations for Philadelphia: Report to the City.” Monument Lab.
“Tragedy Into Hope: Students Rally to Create a Memorial for Ell Persons.” Facing History and Ourselves. (video)