... 2005 , 280). Upon her arrival at Berkeley, Webster Fabio was a nationally and internationally recognized educator, poet, and critic who had helped build the infrastructure for Black studies and the ideological base for Black Power, work that would earn her the nicknames “Panther teacher...

... needed to craft the tools that would help her to do her work. Rethinking Meridians is the critical knowledge project, the tool, that she wanted to have in her hand when she was a classroom teacher. Consisting of articles and lesson plans, the special issue was designed as a disruption tool that would...

... and well-being, Black women begin to strengthen relational and shared experiences and promote agentic health behaviors as an act of social justice. Additionally, this essay includes a lesson plan outline that provides outcomes, strategies, and assessments for teachers to design a lesson plan...

... disproportionately affects people of color and the poor. The author argues that justice cannot be had while ignoring environmental racism, as unjust environmental conditions devalue Black bodies and the potential of Black and poor children worldwide. The second half of this piece contains a lesson plan for teachers...

... Common Core, there appears to be very little room for teachers to incorporate the voices and experiences of anyone whose life is not already embedded within the curriculum. Given that there is an implied dominant circle of historical privilege-where the voices of those who are white, male, heterosexual...

... and identical humans jump out. They ran into the school and rushed back out carrying Mr. Aristides. Then they fed the teacher to the machine. The principal was out of breath, eyes on the ambulance, hands shoving the students out the door. Put your things away and go home, classes are canceled today. What about...

... to join them. "Run!" A girl I do not know pushes me out of the way as she dashes by. She is the first person to address me directly, excluding Nicky and the teacher. I am on top of the world, and the grin on my face shows it. I zigzag and run in circles in the middle of the playground, feign fending off...

... oflinguistic patterns and codes that house a distinguishable and distinctive grammatical and lexicological base employed by some African Americans (Williams 1975). I assume that most students and teachers will have little exposure to scholarly discussions exploring the more positive social, historical...

..., we’ll talk about this later i was still waiting for this later to come as i lined up for the sprinting race she winked at me + smiled from the side lines after i lost the race another teacher said i could’ve won if i wasn’t so busy looking around me ah, the big nun said, she’s better off w...

... of a system ofinstitutional racism, classism, and sexism that invariably leads to inequitable structures like the tracking of students of color from low income and working class communities into high schools with the least experienced and lowest paid teachers; school systems failing to provide AP course...

... and writing and Bs in arithmetic. But it was in her junior high and high school years at Willis and Johnson High Schools that she truly excelled, and which her narrative spends the most time chronicling. Moody’s sense of herself as an exceptional and meritorious person was cemented by teachers and coaches...

... children up to various kinds of racial abuse, most poignantly that meted out by white teachers, but it also places them squarely above Filipinos in the lingering racial hierarchy established by the divide-andconquer, multiethnic, plantation economy from the nineteenth century. 6 The Reyes are the sexually...

..., high blood pressure, and lupus among women, and higher rates of mental illness than most. But not many of us are aware of the violent assault these diseases have made against the lives of black women who are artists, teachers, activists, and scholars. Barbara Christian, a professor of African American...

... pproachetsotheworkofbellhooks'stextsforcontemporary students. Introduction: Feminist Women of Color Teaching bell hooks Dr. bell hooks is every feminist teacher's feminist teacher. Through her scholarship on community building and cultural critique within personal and political dimensions of Black feminism, hooks has been Meridians:feminismra,ce...

...Jade Foster JADE FOSTER I'MSUPPOSEDTO BETHEFIRST In class, the teacher would say all these words. The teacher I called by her first name, would say all these words I didn't know So I would write them down so I could look 'em up later. -That didn't stop me from speaking- But I refused to raise my...

... Wind, sweating profusely, tasting blood at the back of their throats. The lungs felt microwaved, the muscles sprinkled in salt and pummeled mercilessly. For amused gym teachers and cavalier peers who never had a belly press inconveniently against their thighs when sitting, it was great fun, a pitiable...

... married George Bustill White (his father was one of the wealthiest men in Philadelphia) and had five or six children. CharlotteFortenwas a freeborn teacher who was raised in the home of her grandfather, James Porten (a sail maker and veteran of the Revolutionary War), educated by private tutors...

... 2005 and 2007. In Lahore, Pakistan, I interviewed students and teachers at AI-Hudato consider how and why so many women are drawn to AI-Huda's classes, despite, at times, the toll it takes on their most intimate relationships. I was interested in the narratives underlying women's desire to learn...

... Women Historians; and, Lettertso My BlackSons:Raisin,gBoysin a Post-Racial AmericaS. he is also a K-12 Master Teacher in AfricanAmerican History, an award-winning former Baltimore Citymiddle school teacher, a three-time New YorkEmmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, and a 2016-2017 guest commentator...

...) and SkinTrade(Harvard UP 1996). MURIEL M. AH SING HUGHES is an English teacher at Waiakea High School in Hilo, Hawaii. Her first poem, "Hawaiians Eat Rocks," was published in BambooRidge:A Hawai'i Writers'Journal, in 1999. A former school administrator, Dr. Hughes is also a rancher and an entrepreneur...