“Education is constantly used as a divisive political battlefield. Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities shows us that critical solidarities are the only way forward in these troubling and polarized times. This is an excellent book that will help educators more deeply understand the issues they are facing on a daily basis.”

Wayne Au, Professor, University of Washington School of Educational Studies, Editor, "Rethinking Schools"

“Rudnick has put together a fine collection of authors in Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities, whose chapters complicate the unicausal theories of oppressions and instead call for capacious and engaged intersectional work in resistance. At a time when CRT bans are instituted by the same forces that constrain curriculum on language diversity and LGBTQ + issues and restrict transgender people’s access to medical care and women’s access to reproductive freedom, it is all the more important for educators to keep the multiple vectors of oppression and resistance clearly in mind and action: this collection provides important educational impetus for that work.”

Cris Mayo, Professor and Vice Chair, Dept. of Education, Director, Interdisciplinary Studies in Education M. Ed., University of Vermont

“This is a timely and important book essential to understanding our growing authoritarian and fascist political environment and how to resist it. Dennis Rudnick’s edited volume offers an array of scholars who provide thoughtful, real-world examples of how divide-and-conquer strategies further balkanize America. Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities provides a critical framework for helping us understand the multifaceted ways in which division and exclusion are legally institutionalized in American society while offering counternarratives for enhancing a more inclusive, intersectional, and socially just democracy. This is a must-read for anyone interested in education, the social sciences, cultural diversity, and policy.”

Brian W. Dotts, Professor, University of Georgia

“The initial power of Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities is in contributors’ analyses of the political moment, of the hold anti-justice crusaders and their divisive ideologies have today. They paint devastating, instructive pictures of how educational justice efforts are strategically undermined—in some cases, how people committed to those movements are lulled into the undermining. The enduring power of this book is in its turn toward resistance and liberation, in the ways contributors urge and equip to struggle on without compromise. This is the book I needed, arriving precisely when I needed it.”

Paul Gorski, Founder, Equity Literacy Institute, Co-author (with Katy Swalwell) of "Fix Injustice, Not Kids and Other Principles for Transformative Equity Leadership"

“Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities is a fiery, unapologetic, and sometimes terrifying text. Rudnick’s carefully constructed volume hits readers hard with the searing realities of education and schooling in these strange and divisive times; yet as a good teacher he is also mindful of the need to encourage, inspire, and assist readers in affirming that they have the courage and capacity to work in the service of peace, justice, and even joy, both individually and in solidarity to fight the good fight.”

Pamela J. Konkol, Executive Director, American Educational Studies Association, Professor of Foundations, Social Policy, and Research, Concordia University Chicago

“Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities provides a much-needed intervention in the discourse moving P-20 education towards contemporary reproductions of white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy. Drawing on a number of critical frameworks and methodological approaches, the authors tell rich stories that situate the context of divide and conquer ideologies and practices manifest in schools while also providing important counter-stories of resistance, refusal, and visions for something anew. This book is a must read for anyone interested in dreaming about more equitable and just educational worlds by understanding the contours of its current form and function.”

Asif Wilson, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

“Dennis Rudnick’s edited collection, Resisting Divide-and-Conquer Strategies in Education: Pathways and Possibilities, illustrates how repressive modes of power mutate, adapt, and conspire for their survival, and how resistance in educational contexts can and must follow suit. With conceptual rigor, the featured authors meticulously unravel the intersecting and taken-for-granted logics of whiteness, Christian nationalism, anti-communism, xenophobia, and other strategies of domination that undermine the democratic possibilities of American schooling. This volume is a standout addition to scholarship on educational repression and transformation in the first quarter of the 21st century.”

Ed Brockenbrough, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania