Oppression and Resistance in Southern Higher and Adult Education Mississippi and the Dynamics of Equity and Social Justice /

• Main Authors: Strunk, Kamden K. (Author), Locke, Leslie Ann (Author), Martin, Georgianna L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy
• Subjects: Education.; Democracy.; Lifelong learning.; Adult education.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This book explores the long history of oppression and resistance in adult and higher education, situated in Mississippi. The state serves as a unique site in which intersecting narratives around race, ethnicity, social class, opportunity, democracy, and equity have played out over the past several d...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Jennifer Stollman
• Chapter 1. Understanding Mississippi as a Particular Site of Oppression in Education
• Part One: Oppression in Mississippi Adult and Higher Education
• Chapter 2. Conditions of Oppression in Mississippi Adult and Higher Education: The Legacy of White Supremacy and Injustice
• Chapter 3. Tracing the Development and Entrenchment of Oppression in Mississippi Adult and Higher Education
• Chapter 4. Oppression and Resistance Timeline
• Part Two: Resistance in Mississippi Adult and Higher Education
• Chapter 5. Black Resistance
• Chapter 6. Social Class and Resistance
• Chapter 7. Queer Resistance: LGBTQ Students and Allies in Mississippi Adult and Higher Education
• Part Three: The Dynamics of Equity and Social Justice in Southern Adult and Higher Education
• Chapter 8. Education for Democracy and Resistance in Mississippi: Critical Pedagogy and Liberation in Southern Adult and Higher Education
• Chapter 9. Thank God for Mississippi.