Offers rich wideranging counternarratives to social political and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers students and families use to succeed and thrive.Reauthoring Savage Inequalities brings together scholars educators practitioners and students to counter dominant narratives of urban educational environments. Using a community cultural wealth lens contributors center the strategies actions and ways of knowing communities of color use to resist systemic oppression. So often discussions of urban schooling are filled with stories of what Jonathan Kozol famously referred to as savage inequalities in his 1991 book of the same titlewith tales of deficiency and despair.