Dear Colleague, We invite you to contribute to a forthcoming edited volume, A Global Companion for Anti-Racist Education and Solidarity Work. This volume brings together educators, researchers, and community practitioners engaged in the everyday work of confronting racism and cultivating more just educational environments. Rather than treating anti-racist education as abstract or purely theoretical, this volume centers practice. We begin from the premise that some of the most generative forms of anti-racist work are already unfolding in classrooms, schools, community organizations, and local movements. We are particularly interested in contributions that illuminate how anti-racism is enacted, negotiated, and sustained in specific geographic and educational contexts. We invite practitioners and scholar-practitioners to share accounts of their work addressing racism in relation to (neo-)colonial legacies, linguistic marginalization, and other forms of structural inequity in education. Contributions may explore possibilities and challenges related to:

• Classroom, school, or community-based practices that challenge racism and cultivate racially inclusive learning environments
• Illustrations of anti-racist classroom practices and solidarity-based pedagogies, particularly those grounded in case studies
• Descriptions of anti-racist pedagogical and curricular practices across diverse local educational contexts
• Course designs and curricular models that support anti-racist education and solidarity work
• Counterstories emerging from anti-racist educational spaces
• Creative applications of relational pedagogies (e.g., Indigenous or feminist) in anti-racist education and solidarity work
• Curriculum and pedagogical innovations that center racially marginalized histories, languages, and epistemologies
• Community–school collaborations that foster racial solidarity and collective action
• Teacher, youth, or community activism that confronts racism as systemic inequity
• Lessons learned, tensions encountered, and possibilities opened through anti-racist work in local contexts
• Strategies for building and sustaining anti-racist work amid institutional constraints
• Approaches to disrupting the logics of whiteness in anti-racist education and solidarity work
• Dimensions of affect, care, and relationality in anti-racist educational practice and solidarity work
• Reflections on positionality, ethics, and accountability in engaging anti-racist education and solidarity work

Our aim is to assemble a globally relevant collection that foregrounds anti-racist practice and solidarity work across diverse geographies—from Africa, Asia, and the Pacific to the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. By placing these accounts in conversation, the volume seeks to provide a resource for educators and communities with anti-racist commitments to learn from one another across, and without flattening, difference. We welcome proposals from teachers, school leaders, community educators, cultural workers, activists, and researchers engaged in all forms of anti-racist education and solidarity work. Please submit an abstract of approximately 500 words to esther.ohito@rutgers.edu by 31 July 2026. Selected contributors will be invited to submit full chapters for consideration. We would be honored to include your voice and experience in this collective project. Please feel free to forward this invitation to others who may be interested in contributing to the volume. With warm regards, Aaron Teo, Esther O. Ohito, George J. Sefa Dei, Kathy Lewis, and Craig Wood