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“I Hope That You Will Make Room for Our Voices”: Enacting Critical Hope to Sustain a Community's Resistance to a State Takeover of an Urban School District

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This study uses a critical hope lens to examine how a community sustained its advocacy and resistance through narrated counterstories in response to the 2023 state takeover of the Houston Independent School District, one of the largest and most diverse urban school districts in the southern United States. Findings reveal that the community advocated using emotion-oriented tenets of critical hope, such as anger and love, as resources to sustain grassroots resistance to top-down reform by calling out officials, maintaining unity and solidarity, drawing on community knowledge and history, and taking pride in their community schools.

Source: Urban Education

DOI: 10.1177/00420859261504381

Authors: Leslie Ekpe, Daniel I. Dawer, Eleanor J. Su-keene

Institution: Texas A&M University

Language: English

Topic: Critical Race Theory in Education

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Sustainable cities and communities, Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W7225244964

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