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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE ACTIVIST ACADEMIC Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change “In deeply revolting times, Colette Cann and Eric DeMeulenaere have gifted us a book that is part GPS for navigating the Academy; part glass of wine for surviving difficult politics; and part eavesdropping, as we listen in on their conversations, re- flections, relations and even campfires. In the main narrative, The Activist Academic offers us a textual pajama party of laughter, relationship, teaching nightmares and radical innovations, activist research praxis and dilemmas. We appreciate through the pages the joys, struggles and wild imagination that grow at the intersection of ac- tivism and the Academy. From the volume, we learn what it means to survive in the Academy, with full heart and soul; in the footnotes, we meet the Elders, ancestors and those who have written and journeyed before. As a critical small-book compan- ion, the volume is a refreshing, radically honest, and comforting text to accompany us as we carve radical possibilities in the undercommons, with colleagues, students, activists, community members, and movements for justice. The Activist Academic is oxygen for the researcher/scholar/teacher who dares to imagine the University as a site of radical accountability to justice.” Michelle Fine Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology and Urban Education The Graduate Center, CUNY “With all the humor, honesty, and humility that you'd expect in a conversation between friends, the dialogues between Cann and DeMeulenaere that span cover to cover animate the potential and the challenges of approaching research, teaching, and service as an Activist Academic. But be ready: drawing deeply on theory and experience, this book will pull readers into the conversations, the inquiry, and the unavoidable demand that we dive into the unresolvable contradictions at the heart of being a professor committed to justice.” Kevin Kumashiro, PhD author of Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice THE ACTIVIST ACADEMIC THE ACTIVIST ACADEMIC Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change written by COLETTE N. CANN AND ERIC J. D MEULENAERE e Copyright © 2020 | Myers Education Press, LLC Published by Myers Education Press, LLC P.O. Box 424 Gorham, ME 04038 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, recording, and information storage and retrieval, without permission in writing from the publisher. Myers Education Press is an academic publisher specializing in books, e-books, and digital content in the field of education. All of our books are subjected to a rigorous peer review process and produced in compliance with the standards of the Council on Library and Information Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress. 13-digit ISBN 978-1-9755-0139-6 (paperback) 13-digit ISBN 978-1-9755-0138-9 (hardcover) 13-digit ISBN 978-1-9755-0140-2 (library networkable e-edition) 13-digit ISBN 978-1-9755-0141-9 (consumer e-edition) Printed in the United States of America. All first editions printed on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standards Institute Z39-48 standard. Books published by Myers Education Press may be purchased at special quantity discount rates for groups, workshops, training organizations, and classroom usage. Please call our customer service department at 1-800-232-0223 for details. Cover design by Sophie Appel Cover art by Toofly Visit us on the web at www.myersedpress.com to browse our complete list of titles. To my daughters Mykah and Tyla, for inspiring my activism and teaching me about love. —Eric J. DeMeulenaere To Salihah, whose activism is expressed through art, dance, story, and friendship. To Jai, who chose to give his genius presentation in the sixth grade on the four levels of racism. To Roshan, who was named “social justice warrior” of his class in kindergarten. And to Asha, who, as the youngest of us all, is leading the way. —Colette N. Cann CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Foreword by Margo Okazawa-Rey xviii Prologue xxii Chapter 1 Year One 1 Activists Entering the Academy Chapter 2 Year Two 19 Capturing Praxis—Critical Co-Constructed Autoethnography Chapter 3 Year Three 43 Framing Our Work in Critical Social Theory Chapter 4 Year Four 59 Activist Research Chapter 5 Year Five 86 Activist Pedagogy Chapter 6 Year Six 110 Activist Service in Schools and the Community Chapter 7 Year Seven 136 Community in the Undercommons Afterword by John Saltmarsh 148
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