Civic Engagement in Communities of Color: Pedagogy for Learning and Life in a More Expansive Democracy(Research and Practice in Social Studies Series)

Situated at the intersection of race and civics, this volume discusses how communities of color interpret and enact civics both within and beyond the classroom. Chapters focus on historical and contemporary topics ranging from issues facing Asian immigrant communities to the Black Lives Matter at School curriculum. Civic Engagement in Communities of Color will help classroom teachers, teacher candidates, and teacher educators identify where white-washed civics curricula fail students of color and begin to understand how marginalized communities conceive and enact civics without the deficit lens. It will also help education researchers understand the various frameworks that communities of color use to approach civics and civic education. Chapter authors include established and emerging civic education scholars, including Leilani Sabzalian, ArCasia James-Gallaway, Jesús Tirado, and Brittany Jones. Book Features: Reimagines civics teaching and learning in communities of color, expanding current frameworks for what civic education is and can be. Disrupts the idea that civics is a singular notion that should only be viewed through one specific lens. Provides specific examples showing how racially marginalized people have created their own civic spaces. Includes chapters on Black, Indigenous, Arab, Immigrant, South Asian American, and Southeast Asian American communities. Contributors: Annaly Babb-Guerra, Carla-Ann Brown, Aviv Cohen, Tommy Ender, Sabryna Groves, ArCasia James-Gallaway, Denisha Jones, Erica Kelly, Sarah Mathews, Timothy Monreal, Aline Muff, Natasha C. Murray-Everett, Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Ritu Rakrishnan, Leilani Sabzalian, Crystal Simmons, Jesús Tirado, Van Anh Tran, Shianne Walker, Elizabeth Yeager Washington, Rasheeda West, Asif Wilson

Table of Contents:
Contents (Tentative) Foreword Introduction Part I: Current Realities of Civic Education: Perspectives from the Margins 1. Emancipatory Civic Education for Black Students: An Action-Oriented Literature Review Erica Kelley 2. "Have We Been Civically Educated to Seize the Present Moment?": Two Black Social Educators' Sense-Making of Civic Education Carla-Ann Brown, Rasheeda West, and Elizabeth Yeager Washington 3. Civics and Latinidad: Letters to the Past With Hopes for the Future Jesús Tirado, Gabriel Rodriguez, Tim Monreal, and Tommy Ender 4. "I Understand Both of Them. But Nobody Understands Me!": Civic Dissonances Among Arab-Palestinian Students in Israel Aline Muff and Aviv Cohen Part II: Civics Embodied in Communities of Color 5. It's Been Here All Along: Integrating Local Stories of Struggle into Civics Discourses Asif Wilson, ArCasia D. James-Gallaway, and Sabryna Groves 6. #FreeThemAll: Civic Action through Southeast Asian Community Defense Digital Toolkits Van Anh Tran 7. More Than Talk: Youth Poets' Civic Action and How Youth Spoken Word Prepares Minoritized Youths as Civic Actors Camea Davis Part III: Possibilities for Civic Education 8. Black Feminist Pedagogy for Anti-Racist Civics Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Natasha C. Murray-Everett, and Crystal Simmons 9. "Responsible, Capable, and Whole Human Beings": The Value and Necessity of Indigenous Civics Leilani Sabzalian and Michelle M. Jacob 10. "It Didn't Mean 'Me' When It Said 'We'": Counterstories as Pedagogy When Citizenship is Not Guaranteed Brittany Jones 11. The Black Lives Matter at School Guiding Principles: Fostering Black Cultural Citizenship Through Critical Civic Empathy Denisha Jones and Sarah A. Mathews Afterword Endnotes Index About the Editor

About the Author :
Kristen E. Duncan is an assistant professor at Clemson University, a former middle school social studies teacher, and a former elementary school instructional coach. Kristen was awarded the Kipchoge Neftali Kirkland Social Justice Award in 2020 from the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies.