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Black Campus Life
(November 2021)
The Worlds Black Engineering Majors Make at a Historically White Institution
Antar A. Tichavakunda - Author
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The Other American Dilemma
(July 2021)
Schools, Mexicans, and the Nature of Jim Crow, 1912–1953
Rubén Donato - Author
Jarrod Hanson - Author
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Examines how Mexican Americans experienced “unofficial” Jim Crow inside and outside the American education system, and how they used the courts, Mexican Consul, and other resources to challenge that discrimination.
In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in their schools a...(Read More) |
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The Rorty-Habermas Debate
(May 2021)
Toward Freedom as Responsibility
Marcin Kilanowski - Author
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Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.
The Rorty-Habermas debate has been written on widely, but a full treatment of its importance had to wait until now. We have some historical distance from this exchange, which extended over three decades, and which touches upon the ce...(Read More) |
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Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions
(March 2021)
Power, Diversity, and the Emancipatory Struggle in Higher Education
Bianca C. Williams - Editor
Dian D. Squire - Editor
Frank A. Tuitt - Editor
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Argues that plantation life, its racialized inequities, and the ongoing struggle against them are embedded in not only the physical structures but also the everyday workings of higher education.
Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the contemporary university’s entanglement with the history of slavery and settler colon...(Read More) |
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Teaching Race in Perilous Times
(March 2021)
Jason E. Cohen - Editor
Sharon D. Raynor - Editor
Dwayne A. Mack - Editor
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Multidisciplinary anthology on teaching issues of race and racism in US college classrooms.
The college classroom is inevitably influenced by, and in turn influences, the world around it. In the United States, this means the complex topic of race can come into play in ways that are both explicit and implicit. Teaching Race in Perilous Times highlights and confronts the chall...(Read More) |
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Power, Constraint, and Policy Change
(January 2021)
Courts and Education Finance Reform
Robert M. Howard - Author
Christine H. Roch - Author
Susanne Schorpp - Author
Shane A. Gleason - Author
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Examines how state courts change public policy through an analysis of their influence on state education finance reform.
Power, Constraint, and Policy Change analyzes state court influence on state education finance reform. Beginning in the early 1970s litigants began filing suits in state courts to change state education funding in order to prevent disparities in education ...(Read More) |
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Super Schoolmaster
(January 2021)
Ezra Pound as Teacher, Then and Now
Robert Scholes - Author
David Ben-Merre - Author
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Traces the controversial poet’s thinking about teaching and learning throughout his career.
Once described by T. S. Eliot as “first and foremost, a teacher and campaigner,” Ezra Pound has received no shortage of critical attention. Super Schoolmaster suggests that Pound still has quite a bit to teach readers in the twenty-first century, particularly amid increasing threats t...(Read More) |
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The Ideology of Civic Engagement
(January 2021)
AmeriCorps, Politics, and Pedagogy
Sara Carpenter - Author
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Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.
Over the last thirty years, calls for the civic engagement of the American citizenry, especially young people, have gotten increasingly louder. A clear message has emerged that today’s pressing social problems are best addressed through the inno...(Read More) |
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