Kamden K. Strunk is Assistant Professor of Educational Research at Auburn University, USA. He is a director of the Research Initiative on Social Justice and Equity (RISE). His research interests include social justice in education, LGBTQ issues, and quantitative methods.
Leslie Ann Locke is Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies at the University of Iowa, USA. She is a director of the Research Initiative on Social Justice and Equity (RISE). Her research interests include leadership for social justice, schooling for students from marginalized groups, equity-oriented education policy, and qualitative methodologies.
Georgianna L. Martin is Assistant Professor of College Student Affairs Administration at the University of Georgia, USA. She is a director of the Research Initiative on Social Justice and Equity (RISE). Her research interests include social class identity and experiences of low-income college students, social justice in higher education, and social responsibility and activism in higher education.

Foreword by Jennifer Stollman

Chapter 1. Understanding Mississippi as a Particular Site of Oppression in Education

Part One: Oppression in Mississippi Adult and Higher Education

Chapter 2. Conditions of Oppression in Mississippi Adult and Higher Education: The Legacy of White Supremacy and Injustice

Chapter 3. Tracing the Development and Entrenchment of Oppression in Mississippi Adult and Higher Education

Chapter 4. Oppression and Resistance Timeline.- Part Two: Resistance in Mississippi Adult and Higher Education

Chapter 5. Black Resistance

Chapter 6. Social Class and Resistance

Chapter 7. Queer Resistance: LGBTQ Students and Allies in Mississippi Adult and Higher Education

Part Three: The Dynamics of Equity and Social Justice in Southern Adult and Higher Education

Chapter 8. Education for Democracy and Resistance in Mississippi: Critical Pedagogy and Liberation in Southern Adult and Higher Education

Chapter 9. Thank God for Mississippi

This book explores the long history of oppression and resistance in adult and higher education, situated in Mississippi. The state serves as a unique site in which intersecting narratives around race, ethnicity, social class, opportunity, democracy, and equity have played out over the past several decades. In this book, the authors highlight the experiences of students and adults in Mississippi who provide both covert, subtle resistance to the dominant, oppressive educational narrative in the state, as well as those who provide active, visible resistance. Using critical pedagogy and critical theory to drive their analysis, the authors highlight the systematic and continuous nature of oppression, and theorize ways forward toward liberation in Mississippi, the South, and the nation.