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by Malini Johar Schueller (Author)
A call for critical race reading as a step towards creating progressive and democratic politics.
Critical race theory (CRT) has been targeted for bans in forty-nine US states and subjected to a flurry of legislative acts surveilling its teaching at all levels of education. Malini Johar Schueller argues that this censorship and scrutiny is fueled by a fear of racial solidarity.This book asserts that a practice of critical race reading and activism is the way to combat the attacks on racial justice teaching. Teaching in Florida, the epicenter and catalyst of these harsh rebukes of CRT, Schueller challenges students to awaken to questions of racial privilege and hierarchy not through comfortable racial identification but through racial reckoning. Complete with a syllabus that any reader can learn from, Teaching Solidarity models critical ways of reading for social justice.
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"Teaching Solidarity cuts through the fog of the 'war on woke' and arms educators with the tools of critical race reading, not just to open minds but to fight for a just world. A required text for educators and anti-fascists alike."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
"Writing from the Floridian frontline of MAGA's vengeful assault on higher education, Malini Johar Schueller delivers many telling insights into the latest and most vicious phase of the culture wars. She also reminds us there are many ways to fight back."--Andrew Ross, author of The Weather Report: A Journey Through Unsettled Climates "Schueller offers a lucid explanation for the current moral panics involving critical race theory and racial justice initiatives in schools and universities. Most importantly, Schueller maps a pedagogical approach for navigating this fraught moment, focusing on solidarity as method and imperative."--Alex Lubin, President of the American Studies Association"It is always the right time for critical teaching about race and racism. Teaching Solidarity offers a powerful and beautiful guide to that project. Easy to read yet remarkably comprehensive and well researched, this short book explores what Schueller calls 'critical race reading' as a method for both theory and practice. Useful in the classroom, as well as offering a model of critical theory, Teaching Solidarity should be widely adopted: in ed schools, the social sciences, humanities. This is an indispensable work in social movement theory and a call to arms in current struggles over higher education."--Howard Winant, coauthor of Racial Formation in the United States
Author Biography
Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English at the University of Florida and author of U.S. Orientalisms, Locating Race, and Campaigns of Knowledge. She is also the director of In His Own Home, a documentary on raced policing.
