Explore Chezare’s books and book chapter contributions.
School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
(McGraw-Hill, 2026)
School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives offers a rich and comprehensive exploration of the evolution of education in the United States. The text focuses on the dominant political, philosophical, and cultural ideologies of each historical era. The authors use a variety of pedagogical methods to tell an engaging historical story about school and society that will encourage students to create an educational philosophy of their own. This material will help prepare educators to reflect critically on their teaching practices in social and institutional contexts. Primary source readings are found throughout the text to make the content come alive for students. This is the book’s 9th edition.
Book Features:
Describes practical, antideficit approaches to educating Black children, youth, and young adults.
Focuses on productively reorienting visions, philosophies, and rationales guiding contemporary Black education transformation work.
Includes relatable stories and anecdotes written in a conversational style.
Filled with provocative pieces of original art by Black artists, such as paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media, spoken word, poems, and song lyrics.
Centering Possibility In Black Education
(Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 2021)
Urban Preparation: Young Black Men Moving from Chicago's South Side to Success in Higher Education
(Harvard Education Press, 2017)
This text depicts the ecology of people, moments, lessons, incidents, and interactions that collectively help determine the journey to and through college for seventeen young Black men from Chicago’s South Side. Counterstorytelling in Urban Preparation acknowledges the cultural strengths young Black men and boys bring to school with them, and the important role of Black communities in their educational attainment.
