Advancing Social Justice: Tools, Pedagogies, and Strategies to Transform Your Campus

Praise for Advancing Social Justice "An important book that challenges social justice educators to continually manifest our core values and intentions in our practice—to authentically engage others with humility and compassion knowing we have memberships in both privileged and marginalized groups and the dynamics of oppression we confront today may be ones we unconsciously participate in tomorrow." —Kathy Obear, founding faculty, Social Justice Training Institute "In a field where social justice and critical social theory are all too often absent from the discussion, this bold, fresh text offers critical insights and guidance to those grappling with the difficulties of truly engaging in democratic education. Ultimately it reminds us that social justice is not a convenient add-on to student learning. Rather, it is the essence of education." — Nolan L. Cabrera, assistant professor, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Education Policy Studies & Practice, College of Education, University of Arizona "With a bit of humility and a huge dose of reality, Davis and Harrison provide the reader with a chance to revisit, rethink, and regroup around the topic of social justice and social justice education. They make the topic more accessible for many to examine and explore without rushing to political correctness." — Jill Ellen Carnaghi, associate vice chancellor for students, dean of campus life, Washington University in St. Louis

List of Tables and Exhibits ix Foreword xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxvii About the Authors xxxi 1. Uncovering Epistemology: Frameworks Supporting a Change Agenda 1 2. A Toolkit for Understanding a Social Justice Paradigm 19 3. From Wealthy White Landowners to Affirmative Action to Proposition 209 to Grutter v. Bollinger: A Short History of Social Justice and Injustice in Higher Education 51 4. Critical Pedagogy: The Foundation of Social Justice Educational Practice 83 5. Situating the Self: Barriers to and Strategies for Effective Social Justice Education 103 6. Media Literacy 129 7. Disrupting Organizational Practices to Empower People 151 8. Strategies for Reinvigorating Social Justice in Higher Education 171 References 199 Name Index 225 Subject Index 231

Tracy Davis is a professor in the Department of Educational and Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Illinois University, where he also coordinates the College Student Personnel Program. In 2011 he began serving as director of the newly established Center for the Study of Masculinities and Men's Development. Laura M. Harrison is an assistant professor in the Counseling and Higher Education Department at Ohio University. She has served as associate dean of students, Women's Community Center director, resident fellow, and instructor in feminist studies at Stanford University.