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<div class="page" title="Page 127"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Th</span><span>e author discusses her collaborative research with parents and communities against neoliberal education policies in Chicago. </span><span>Th</span><span>e paper summarizes several projects that challenge racism and educational privatization: using social science data to challenge public school closings, collaboration with a community organization to tell the story of the e</span><span>ff</span><span>ects of school closings and disinvestment on African American students and schools from their own perspective, and research for a city-wide coalition for an elected school governance board. </span><span>Th</span><span>e author uses these projects to illustrate multiple forms of activist scholarship and some of their complexities and contradictions.</span></p></div></div></div>