Disrupting Hate in Education

Rita Verma is Professor in the School of Education, College of Education and Health Studies, at Adelphi University in New York.

This book aims to identify and respond to the ideological forms of hate and fear that are present in schools, which echo larger nativist and populist agendas. Written by a dynamic group of activist-scholars and program leaders, chapters demonstrate how conservative mobilizations gain momentum, and how these mobilizations can be interrupted.

INTRODUCTION Understanding and Interrupting Hate; 1 Civility and Democratic Schools Under Assault: Engaging "Teaching Tolerance.org" as Interruption, An Interview with Maureen Costello; 2 "'Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!': Teaching in Authoritarian Times"; 3 Collective Strength and Agency: How El Paso Firme/Strong Disrupts Hate, Fear, and White Nationalism in the Settler Colonial BorderLands.; 4 Bomb Threats and Black Lives Matter at School: Teaching and Organizing Against White Supremacy in K-12 Education; GLOBAL VIEWPOINTS; 5 Interrupting Hate Before It Starts; 6 "Giving the World a More Human Face" deferred. South Africa's Neoliberalism, Misogyny and Xenophobia; 7 Hate, bigotry, and discrimination against Muslims: Urdu during the Hindutva Rule; 8 Understanding the Hate Against Teachers in Brazil; 9 Successful Actions- Interrupting Hate Against Roma through Dialogue in Spain; 10 State and Hate in Myanmar: One Lone Educator's Resistance through Public Pedagogy; CONCLUSION Why Educational Action is So Important Now