Publication Date: September 26, 2025
Pages: 272
Series: Multicultural Education Series
Two of the foremost educational researchers chronicle their 30-year collaboration across tumultuous shifts in educational studies, bearing witness to cumulative inequities in schools and urban communities.
Weis and Fine examine critical research designs with young people from elite, working class, and impoverished class fractions, as well as across racial and ethnic groups, including those experiencing structural dispossession and those enjoying privilege.
Curated to be useful to today’s students and future generations of scholars, the volume chronicles the sustained impacts of unjust state systems and dives into vibrant fissures in which the imagination flourishes and possibilities grow.
Chapters explore rich linkages of theory and methods; knotty questions of collaboration, partnership, and ethics; and designs that trace social relations over time and space. A newly developed introduction and conclusion bookend six previously published chapters, many coauthored with a range of colleagues, animating research studies with a broad range of young people and young adults navigating the uneven landscapes of education in urban America.
Book Features:
Lois Weis is State University of New York Distinguished Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Michelle Fine is Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and founding faculty member of The Public Science Project. They are coauthors of Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations: Re-Imagining Schools; Speed Bumps: A Student Friendly Guide to Qualitative Research, and Construction Sites: Excavating Race, Class and Gender Among Urban Youth, all published by Teachers College Press, among other publications.
“Once again, Drs. Fine and Weis have compiled writing by an impressive array of scholars whose commitment to using their research to advance justice and equity is profound and unflinching. The chapters in this volume contribute important perspectives to the field of education that students and scholars will find invaluable and extremely informative. Given that diversity, equity and inclusion are under attack like never before, this timely book will soon become an indispensable resource and guide to scholars everywhere who remain dedicated to using education as a resource to transform society.”
—Pedro Noguera, Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean, USC Rossier School of Education
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