Generation BULLIED 2.0

sj Miller is Associate Professor of Urban Teacher Education/Secondary English and Language Arts at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. sj has published widely in journals and is co-author of the book entitled Change Matters: Critical Essays on Moving Social Justice Research from Theory to Policy.Leslie David Burns is Associate Professor of Literacy and the Program Chair of English Education at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. He has published in a variety of journals and is the author (with Leigh Hall and Elizabeth Carr Edwards) of Empowering Struggling Readers: Practices for the Middle School.Tara Star Johnson is Associate Professor of English Education at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Her work has resulted in several publications and awards, including From Teacher to Lover: Sex Scandals in the Classroom (Peter Lang 2008).

«This book intervenes in the national epidemic of bullying in ways both exemplary in its analysis and hopeful in its call to action. Miller, Burns, and Johnson bring together a collection of scholars and advocates whose analyses and insights both deepen and complicate our understandings of bullying in its various and overlapping forms, of student experiences along multiple and intersected dimensions of diversity, and of what can be and is being done to make schools and communities more safe and inclusive for each and every student. Generation BULLIED 2.0 is a clarion call to action—read it today and join the movement!» (Kevin Kumashiro, author of Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture)«Generation BULLIED 2.0 takes personal stories of our most vulnerable youth to illustrate what must be done from the federal level to the classroom. Bullying is not and has never been solely a school issue, and Generation BULLIED 2.0 takes on the societal and cultural roots of bullying. This book will begin a conversation about what must be done to ensure all of our students are not only safe but also feel welcome in our nation’s schools.» (Jamie Nabozny, Safe School Advocate)«Generation BULLIED 2.0 is not only a powerful text, it is a necessary one. Despite the so-called ‘new-openness’ the society professes around notions of difference and diversity, school-aged children and youth are still battling to be accepted for who they are and who they are becoming. In far too many schools it is acceptable to bully and harass students based on their sexuality and gender identity. This has to stop and this volume says it loudly, cogently, and clearly.» (Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, Interim Assistant Vice Provost & Director, Chancellors & Powers Knapp Scholars Program, University of Wisconsin–Madison)

• Contents: sj Miller: Where Are We Now? The Current State of Bullying in the United States – sj Miller/James R. Gilligan: The Distressing Realities About Queer-Related (LGBTQGV) Bullying – Tara Star Johnson/Elana Cutter: Bullies and Bodies: Addressing Weight Discrimination – Joseph John Morgan/Deanna Adams: Bullying and Students with Disabilities: The Bully, the Bullied, and the Misunderstood – Tyrone Rivers/Dorothy Espelage: Black Ritual Insults: Causing Harm or Passing Time? – Rodrigo Joseph Rodríguez: Bullying and Harassment Prevention in the Lives of Latina and Latino Students – sj Miller/Stephanie Beyer: Cyber-Digital Bullying – Leslie David Burns: The Consequences of Bullying and Anti-Bullying Interventions for Individual and School Success – sj Miller: The Broader Contexts of Bullying: Disrupting Bullying Through Preventive and Interventionist Policy – sj Miller: Shifting the Tide of Bullying Through Teacher Education: Tools for the Classroom.