Lois Weis is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Michelle Fine is Professor of Social-Personality Psychology at the City University of New York, Graduate Center.
Introduction: Compositional Studies in Four Parts: Critical Theorizing and Analysis on Social (In)Justice
Lois Weis and Michelle Fine Section One: Full Composition and Initial Fracturing 1: Dear Zora: A Letter to Zora Neale Hurston Fifty Years after Brown
Michelle Fine
Janice Bloom
April Burns
Lori Chajet
Monique Guishard
Tiffany Perkins-Munn and María Elena Torre Section Two: Deep Work Within a Fracture 2: Race
Gender and Critique: African American Women
White Women
and Domestic Violence in the 1980s and 1990s
Lois Weis 3: Civics Lessons: The Color and Class of Betrayal
Michelle Fine
April Burns
Yassar Payne and María Elena Torre Section Three: Designs for Historic Analysis 4: Gender
Masculinity and the New Economy
Lois Weis Section Four: Designs to Document Sites of Possibility 5: Participatory Action Research: From Within and Beyond Prison Bars
Michelle Fine
María Elena Torre
Kathy Boudin
Iris Bowen
Judith Clark
Donna Hylton
Migdalia Martinez
Missy Melissa Rivera
Rosemarie A. Roberts
Pamela Smart
and Debora Upegui 6: Extraordinary Conversations in Public Schools
Lois Weis and Michelle Fine Epilogue Notes