Neoliberal capitalism has paved the way to educational catastrophe. It has also opened paths for politically productive and transformative forms of localized resistance(s). This book examines the perilous catastrophe before us, and the possibility that we can reclaim our rights as citizens and redefine democracy as a process for global good rather than a euphemism for our collective enslavement to global markets, which annihilate our souls. The authors analyze the «crisis» in U.S. urban education through visceral narratives of social control while resisting the tendency to make the United States the epicenter of educational «reform» analysis. They explore neoliberal capitalism and processes of racialization as interdependent. The neoliberalization of education is having disproportionate negative implications for communities of color. More profoundly, neoliberal ideology is reworking processes of racialization and the way race is inscribed in discourse and bodies. The book is optimistic in sharing what might be done to inspire the mass withdrawal of consent not only to regressive regimes of high-stakes standardized testing, but to the entire edifice of neoliberal imperialism.

Contents: Charting the Neoliberal Nightmare and the Moral Outrage ¿ Capital Movement and Global Displacement: Curricular Fatalities in the Age of Neoliberalism - the Case of Cape Verde ¿ Performance Contracting and Supplemental Educational Services: Other Altars of Neoliberal Language Deception and Citizen Salvation ¿ Education by Corporate Priorities, Youth Minds and Bodies under Arrest, and the Complexities of Resistance and Resignation ¿ Raising Disquieting Questions in the Struggles Against Urban Violence ¿ The Advancing Endgame Revolt! Dialogues with Activists and Community Organizers in the Trenches.

Ricardo D. Rosa is a scholar-activist who earned his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. He co-chairs the national organization
Save Our Schools
and the S.E. Massachusetts and R.I. Coalition to Save Our Schools.

Joao J. Rosa is the Executive Director of the Pedro Pires Institute for Cape Verdean Studies at Bridgewater State University. He is an International Curriculum Advisor to the University of Cape Verde and a member of the National Commission on Languages. He is also the author of
Discursos Linguísticos e realidades nas salas de aulas: Vencendo a luta pelo controle.
Ricardo and Joao are co-authors of
Pedagogy in the Age of Media Control: Language Deception and Digital Democracy
released in 2011 by Peter Lang.