Explore Chezare’s three books and sample book chapter contributions.
Chezare’s Newest Book – Centering Possibility In Black Education.
Book Features:
Describes practical, antideficit approaches to educating Black children, youth, and young adults.
Focuses on productively reorienting visions, philosophies, and rationales guiding contemporary Black education transformation work.
Includes relatable stories and anecdotes written in a conversational style.
Filled with provocative pieces of original art by Black artists, such as paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media, spoken word, poems, and song lyrics.
Urban Preparation: Young Black Men Moving from Chicago's South Side to Success in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press, 2017)
This text depicts the ecology of people, moments, lessons, incidents, and interactions that collectively help determine the journey to and through college for seventeen young Black men from Chicago’s South Side. Counterstorytelling in Urban Preparation acknowledges the cultural strengths young Black men and boys bring to school with them, and the important role of Black communities in their educational attainment.
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White Women's Work: Examining the Intersectionality of Teaching, Identity, and Race (Information Age Publishing, 2017)
This book examines how white women teacher dispositions (i.e. knowledge, beliefs, and skills) intersect (and/or interact) with their racial identity development, the concept of whiteness, institutional racism, and cultural perspectives of racial difference. Each of which, as the authors in this volume argue, matter for nurturing a teaching practice that leads to more equitable schooling outcomes for youth of color.
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