Rise Up!

Amalia Dache is an Afro-Cuban American scholar who is an Assistant Professor at Penn Graduate School of Education at University of Pennsylvania.Stephen John Quaye is an Associate Professor in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at Ohio State University and is the past president of ACPA: College Student Educators International. His research focuses on engaging in dialogues about difficult issues, student and scholar activism, and strategies for healing from racial battle fatigue.Chris Linder is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy at the University of Utah, where she studies sexual violence and student activism through a power-conscious, historical lens.Keon M. McGuire is an Assistant Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education at Arizona State University. Drawing from Africana frameworks, he examines how race, gender, and religion shape minoritized college students’ identities and the ways they experience and resist racism, sexism, and heteronormativity.

"Around the world, university students of color have tired of fraudulent political discourses of racialized normativity that have violently betrayed subaltern dreams of justice. In response, they are rising to resist and challenge the destructive impact and persistence of racialized and economic subjugation on their lives and their communities. Anchored in the critical power of a Black feminist tradition, Rise Up! Activism as Education engages this reality not only through incisive critique and analysis of contemporary issues but also by advancing a much-needed call to action—if we are to genuinely dismantle and reinvent the oppressive conditions of education and society that defy our liberation."—Antonia Darder, Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education, University of Johannesburg "RiseUp!Activism as Education expresses the ideas and aspirations of a new generation of student and scholar activists who feel compelled to wake up, stand up, step up, and speak up. It presents firsthand accounts from the front lines of struggle that delineate the work of an outpouring of creative and critical collaborations among people who refuse the unlivable destinies intended for them as a first step for forging new democratic practices and possibilities."—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

• CONTENTS Foreword, by David Omotoso Stovall Preface Introduction PART 1. Community and Campus Resistance Vignette. Resistance Matters, Maxwell C. Little Vignette. A Resistance Journey in Higher Education, Storm Ervin Youth Participatory Action Research as Praxis: The Importance of Shared Power among Youth and Adults to Counter Systemic Racism, Anjalé Welton and Melanie Bertrand How Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Lessons Learned through Art, Activism, and Dialogue, Durell M. Callier We Were Tired of Talking: The Catalyst for the Mobilizing Anger Collective, Dominique C. Hill, Mahauganee D. Shaw Bonds, and Stephen John Quaye Defining the Struggle: Epistemological Explorations of Social Geography and Digital Space in Ferguson, Amalia Dache and Cristina Mislán Peer Pedagogies, Communities of Memory, and Occupying the Florida Capitol, Charles H. F. Davis III PART 2. Intersectional Activism Vignette. University Activism and the Central Role of Black Womyn, Abigail Hollis Undocumented and Unafraid, Queer, Trans, and Unashamed: How Undocuqueer Immigrants Are Redefining the Traditional Classroom, Jesus Cisneros The Coalitional Factors of Student Activism: How Student Coalitions Struggle to Move beyond Diversity Logics, Jalil B. Mustaffa and Oscar J. Mayorga Nuanced Activism: A Matrix of Resistance, Terah J. Stewart and Brittany M. Williams Activism, Immigration, and Graduate School: Letters of Hope and Solidarity, Susana M. Muñoz and Angelica Velazquillo PART 3. Black Diasporic Liberation Vignette. Threads of Global Political Consciousness, Jonathan L. Butler Locked in the Shadows: Chicago's Black Community College Campus Movement, Fredrick Douglass Dixon Black Solidarity Matters, Ifeyinwa Onyenekwu The Role of the University in Building a Twenty-First-Century Pan-Africanism: Reconstituting Transnational Solidarity for Liberation, Brian Kamanzi Contributors