UTL #16: Book Review: We Want to Do More Than Survive

G. Funmilayo speaks about Dr. Bettina Love’s new book highlighting; 1) mattering & abolitionist teaching, 2) education justice, 3) educational survival complex.

Folks to Know
1. Bettina Love
2. Barbara Sizemore
3. Gloria Ladson-Billings
4. Derrick Bell

What to Read
1. Anderson, C. (2016). White rage: The unspoken truth of our racial divide. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
2. Coates, T. N. (2015). Between the world and me. Text publishing.
3. Dumas, M. J. (2016). Against the dark: Antiblackness in education policy and discourse. Theory into Practice, 55(1), 11-19.
4. Green III, P. C., Baker, B. D., Oluwole, J. O., & Mead, J. F. (2015). Are We Heading toward a Charter School Bubble: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. U. Rich. L. Rev., 50, 783.
5. Horn, J. (2016). Work hard, be hard: Journeys through" No Excuses" teaching. Rowman & Littlefield.
6. Love, B. L. (2019). We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon Press.
7. Williams, P. (1987). Spirit-murdering the messenger: The discourse of fingerpointing as the law's response to racism. U. Miami L. Rev., 42, 127.
Get Involved
1.Go to the school board meeting
2.Go to town hall meeting around housing injustice, immigration injustice, etc.
3. Become an abolitionist teaching