We shall not bow down : children of color under siege: an invocation to resistance / Jonathan Kozol.
| Author/creator | Kozol, Jonathan author |
| Other author | Weingarten, Randi, writer of introduction |
| Other author | Shaw, Theodore M., writer of foreword. |
| Other author | Kozol, Jonathan. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York ; Oakland ; London : Seven Stories Press, [2026] |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | xxiii, 168 pages ; 21 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Two degrees of separation -- Varieties of tyranny -- Learned helplessness -- Ironies and desolation -- Models of the possible -- A delicate dilemma -- Education without fear -- An assault on the humanities -- The Trump ascendancy -- Author's Q and A. |
| Abstract | In the culminating work of his career, groundbreaking educator Jonathan Kozol goes back into urban schools, where racial isolation is at the highest level since he became a teacher and is now compounded by a new regime of punitive instruction and coercive uniformity that is deemed to be appropriate for children who are said to be incapable of learning in more democratic ways, like children in more privileged communities. Kozol believes it's well past time to batter down the walls between two separate worlds of education and to make good, at long last, on the "promissory note" that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. We Shall Not Bow Down takes aim directly at the disparate agenda that denies Black and Latino children the right to ask discerning questions about a system that places them in toxic sequestration and substitutes draconian penalties and a constant fear of failure for anything resembling healthy motivation. This extreme degree of indoctrinational and authoritarian instruction, Kozol writes, has robbed too many of our children of the power to think independently at a time when it is desperately needed in the face of an administration that is threatening the very essences of democracy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781644215302 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1644215306 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | New Books | LC212.62 .K688 2026 | ✔ Available | Want This? |