Seider and Graves provide a rich accounting of the powerful practices that are necessary for fostering youth critical consciousness by drawing upon the experiences of a culturally diverse group of students attending high schools in urban communities. This book is essential for educators in and beyond school walls who are concerned with the positive and healthy success of marginalized and minoritized young people preparing to be productive contributors to our democracy. — Dorinda Carter Andrews, chairperson, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University

Schooling for Critical Consciousness offers a clarion call for educators and researchers as we respond to these ‘dangerous times’ in our work with youth. Starting with James Baldwin’s wisdom and then guiding us through engrossing case studies of five schools, the authors highlight key practices that support youth as conscious agents of social change and the varied strengths of different schoolwide approaches to students’ sociopolitical development. This is a must-read for educators looking to support the healthy development of all of our young people as they contend with a social world fractured by structural oppression and racism. — Ben Kirshner, professor, School of Education, University of Colorado Boulder

Schooling for Critical Consciousness serves as both a hard call to all education stakeholders who remain blind to these dangerous times and a useful guide to those policymakers, schools, and educators who are ready to transform educational spaces to include opportunities to purposefully cultivate and actively grow critical consciousness of racial injustice among our Black and Latinx students as a means of empowerment and agency, and to better equip them to face these dangerous times in which we all live. — Teachers College Record