Situated at the intersection of race and civics, this volume discusses how communities of color interpret and enact civics both within and beyond the classroom. Chapters focus on historical and contemporary topics ranging from issues facing Asian immigrant communities to the Black Lives Matter at School curriculum.

Contents Foreword by Ashley N. Woodson  vii Introduction  xi Part I: Current Realities of Civic Education: Perspectives from the Margins 1.  Emancipatory Civic Education for Black Students: An Action-Oriented Literature Review  3 Erica Kelley 2.  “Have We Been Civically Educated to Seize the Present Moment?”: Two Black Social Educators’ Sense-Making of Civic Education  17 Carla-Ann Brown, Rasheeda West, and Elizabeth Yeager Washington 3.  Civics and Latinidad: Letters to the Past With Hopes for the Future  31 Jesús Tirado, Gabriel Rodriguez, Timothy Monreal, and Tommy Ender 4.  “I Understand Both of Them. But Nobody Understands Me!”: Civic Dissonances Among Arab-Palestinian Students in Israel  41 Aline Muff and Aviv Cohen Part II: Civics Embodied in Communities of Color 5.  It’s Been Here All Along: Integrating Local Stories of Struggle Into Civics Discourses  57 Asif Wilson, ArCasia D. James-Gallaway, and Sabryna Groves 6.  #FreeThemAll: Civic Action Through Southeast Asian Community Defense Digital Toolkits  71 Van Anh Tran 7.  More Than Talk: Youth Poets’ Civic Action and How Youth Spoken Word Prepares Minoritized Youths as Civic Actors  93 Camea Davis Part III: Possibilities for Civic Education 8.  Black Feminist Pedagogy for Anti-Racist Civics  109 Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Natasha C. Murray-Everett, and Crystal Simmons 9.  “Responsible, Capable, and Whole Human Beings”: The Value and Necessity of Indigenous Civics  125 Leilani Sabzalian and Michelle M. Jacob 10.  “It Didn’t Mean ‘Me’ When It Said ‘We’ ”: Counterstories as Pedagogy When Citizenship Is Not Guaranteed  141 Brittany Jones 11.  The Black Lives Matter at School Guiding Principles: Fostering Black Cultural Citizenship Through Critical Civic Empathy  153 Denisha Jones and Sarah A. Mathews Endnotes  169 Index  171 About the Editor and Authors  181

“The authors in this volume do an outstanding job articulating why fear is really the only rational response to the current condition of our field…If you believe a more expansive democracy is necessary and possible through informed, empowering civic engagement of young people, this book should keep you up at night. Stay woke.” —From the Foreword by Ashley N. Woodson, associate vice president of academic outreach, Albion College