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Reading Peace Education

From: Educating for Action

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Editors Jason Del Gandio and Anthony J. Nocella II, along with volume contributors, present Educating for Action: Strategies to Ignite Social Justice as an engaging and instructive manual for social justice, suitable for both students and teachers, as well as for larger activist communities. This organizing manifesto goes beyond elementary ideas, as it offers original essays from scholars and activists concerned with a plethora of issues — LGBTQ, human and animal rights, disability rights, hip-hop, environmentalism, prison abolition, feminism, and more.

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Joy James

Joy James is Presidential Professor of the Humanities at Williams College and visiting scholar in African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where she curates the Harriet Tubman Literary Circle, a digital repository on human rights. She is the editor of several critical anthologies on US democracy and political and mass incarceration: The New Abolitionists, Imprisoned Intellectuals, and Warfare in the American Homeland. Her books on feminism and race include Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Radical Politics; Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals; and Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in US Culture. James’s most recent publication is Seeking the Beloved Community: A Feminist Race Reader.