Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: Dignity at the Forefront -- Acknowledgments -- 1. I Am, We Are Somebodies: An Introduction to the Idea of Dignity -- PART I: IMAGINING AND ORGANIZING DIGNITY-AFFIRMING SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS -- 2. The Radical Affirmation of Dignity: Septima Clark, Ella Baker, and Educating the Disenfranchised -- 3. Contradictions and the Dignity of Resistance: Truth and Reckoning at a Social Justice School -- 4. Breathing Dignity Into a Community College Success Course -- PART II: DIGNITY-AFFIRMING EXPERIENCES -- 5. "You're Gonna Get Respected, Listened to, and Your Opinion Will Be Respected": Dignity Affirmation in the Clemente Course in the Humanities -- 6. Power Lifting: Being Somebody, Becoming Significant -- 7. "Teachers Don't Like Me Because You Have to Earn My Respect": Deference and Dignity in the Classroom -- 8. "The Protests Made Me Feel So Proud of Us": Racial Literacies and Bearing Witness to the Movement for Black Lives -- 9. Subverting Invisibility: Connectivity as Dignity-Affirming Pedagogy -- PART III: DIGNITY-AFFIRMING SOCIAL AND EDUCATION POLICY -- 10. Threaten to Close?: Alternative Schools of Dignity, Recognition, and Transformation Under Constant Neoliberal Assault -- 11. "It's Powerful. There's Nothing Punitive About It -- You're Just Listening": Restorative Justice as a Dignity-Affirming Practice -- 12. Taking Pride in Our Languages, Taking Pride in Ourselves: Dual Language Education as Dignity-Affirming Spaces for Latinx Communities -- Conclusion: Centering Dignity -- Notes -- Index -- About the Editors and the Contributors.