Ideal for scholars and students of critical pedagogy, philosophy of education, and political theory, this collection delineate the necessity of critical consciousness through education, and provides ways of speaking back against authoritarian control of imaginative and critical capacities.

Introduction: The Urgency of Refusing Adjustment, George Yancy; 1. Uncovering and Challenging White Supremacy, Stephen Brookfield; 2. White Ignorance, Epistemic Injustice and the Challenges of Teaching for Critical Social Consciousness, Barbara Applebaum; 3. Higher Education and Pedagogy in the Age of Trump, Henry A. Giroux; 4. The Worry Well: Teaching in these Ignominious Times, Becky Thompson; 5. Teaching Students Systemic Racism Theory and Autopathy: The Age of White Nationalism, Kimberley Ducey and Joe R. Feagan; 6. Education and the International Division of Labor, Power, and Prestige, William David Hart; 7. A Season of Light and Darkness: On Education and President Donald J. Trump, Josiah Ulysses Young III; 8. Complicating Resistance: Intersectionality, Liberation, and Democracy, Jennifer Gale de Saxe; 9. Educating for Democracy: Lessons from the Life of Myles Horton, Stephen Preskill; 10. The Beast Behind the Wall: Critical Teaching in Terrible Times, Ira Shor; 11. "Do Something Ethical": Critical Thinking, Theorizing, and Political Will, Joy James; 12. Education for Democracy: The Daunting Task Before Us, Bill Bywater; 13. Truth and (Trump's) Method: The Instability of Critical Thinking in Education, Kal Alston; 14. Teaching in Times of Anti-Academic Provocation, Cris Mayo

George Yancy is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of over 20 books and is known for his influential essays and interviews in the New York Times philosophy column "The Stone."