Table of Contents:
  • I Am, We Are Somebodies: An Introduction to the Idea of Dignity
  • Part 1. Imagining and Organizing Dignity-Affirming Schools and Educational Programs. The Radical Affirmation of Dignity: Septima Clark, Ella Baker, and Educating the Stigmatized
  • Contradictions and the Dignity of Resistance: Truth and Reckoning at a Social Justice School
  • Breathing Dignity into a Community College Success Course
  • Part 2. Dignity-Affirming Experiences. You're Gonna Get Respected, Listened To, and Your Opinion Will Be Respected: Dignity Affirmation in the Clemente Course in the Humanities
  • Power Lifting: Being Somebody, Becoming Significant
  • Teachers Don't Like Me Because You Have to Earn My Respect: Deference and Dignity in the Classroom
  • The Protests Made Me Feel So Proud of Us: Racial Literacies and Bearing Witness to the Movement for Black Lives
  • Subverting Invisibility: Connectivity as Dignity-Affirming Pedagogy
  • Part 3. Dignity-Affirming Social and Education Policy. Threaten to Close? Alternative Schools of Dignity, Recognition, and Transformation Under Constant Neoliberal Assault
  • It's Powerful. There's Nothing Punitive About It; You're Just Listening: Restorative Justice as a Dignity-Affirming Practice
  • Taking Pride in Our Languages, Taking Pride in Ourselves: Dual Language Education as Dignity-Affirming Spaces for Latinx Communities
  • Conclusion: Centering Dignity.