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Sharing stories of Native American resilience amidst toxic school and community cultures, Mneesha Gellman examines the consequences of the misrepresentation and suppression of Indigenous culture in secondary education through the insights of students and teachers working to revitalize the Yurok language.

Community-Engaged Scholarship is a collection of stories told by alumni of the University of Pennsylvania who, as students, participated in the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and whose lives were transformed by engaging with the West Philadelphia community.

Former Princeton provost and Harvard president Neil L. Rudenstine demonstrates that universities have become “contentious” institutions—by the anti-Vietnam student protests in the Sixties, by their extensive decentralization in the following decades, and by the increasingly diverse social composition of students and faculty today.

In Discipline Problems, Tadashi Dozono takes seriously the frequently overlooked critiques that students of color who get labeled as “troublemakers” direct toward their high-school education. He reinterprets “troublemaking” as an intellectual asset in classrooms where whiteness is valued over the histories and knowledge of people of color.

Desert Dreams chronicles Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post–World War II era. From founding territorial schools to suing to end segregation in education, Mexican Americans engaged in vital political, legal, and educational activism.

Mneesha Gellman examines how Indigenous high school students resist assimilation and assert their identities through access to Indigenous language classes in public schools. She contends that this access to Indigenous language instruction in secondary schooling provides them tools and strategies for civic, social, and political participation.

Michael Chibnik was editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist for four years. Scholarship, Money, and Prose provides detailed ethnographic and historical descriptions of the operations of the journal as well as engaging anecdotes of his experiences. The book offers a window onto the past, present, and future of scholarly publishing.

Laurie Groman and E. Michele Ramsey argue that, in order for our economy and democracy to thrive, we need more humanities majors, not fewer. Major Decisions serves as an informative guide to students and parents—and provides a powerful reminder to employers and university administrators of the true value of an education in the humanities.