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House, and Thomas Miller  \nThis essay begins with Nikole Hannah-Jones’s assessment of the solidarity that has sustained African Americans’ hope that our country can still make good on the promise of democracy. This social resilience has sustained BIPOC communities through the pandemic in ways that demonstrate how personal well-being is rooted in collective wellness. Research on students’understanding of social resilience has examined how feelings of dignity and self-sufficiency foster hope and enable collective agency. This dynamic is vital to culturally sustaining pedagogies that help students engage with the lifeways that help them feel connected and hopeful. We discuss critical hiphop pedagogy as an example of culturally engaged teaching that can cultivate students’ social resilience by acknowledging the dignity of their communal experiences and traditions in ways that can sustain hope and enable collective action.  \nCulturally Sustaining Pedagogies to Restore Individual and Collective Well-Being  \nThe United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie. Our Declaration of Independence . . . proclaims that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” But the white men who drafted those words did not believe them to be true for the hundreds of thousands of black people in their midst. “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” did not apply to fully one-fifth of the country. Yet despite being violently denied the freedom and justice promised to all, black Americans believed fervently in the American creed. Through centuries of black resistance and protest, we have helped the country live up to its founding ideals. And not only for ourselves—black rights struggles paved the way for every other rights struggle, including women’s and gay rights, immigrant and disability rights.  \nWithout the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different—it might not be a democracy at all.  \n—Nikole Hannah-Jones  \nComposition Studies 50.2 (2022): 77–94  \nNikoleexamiHnaensahhe-Jonpareasd’oPxulitaterhe-PrhizeaerionfnAingmeersaycanindhmeoNYTcracy:Mitasgazinmos committed advocates have been those most abused by it. This paradox came into stark focus with the Black Lives Matter struggle and the related social justice movements that pressed authorities to do more to support vulnerable groups during the isolation and alienation of the pandemic. Student activistsand faculty allies built coalitions to press authorities to invest in wellness and self-care programs to provide essential support to students and faculty who were struggling to raise children, care for the sick, and pay the rent. One of the first lessons many of us learned from those struggles is that our well-being is interwoven with the well-being of our families, our communities, our students, and our coworkers, as well as the first responders and service workers we depended upon to deliver our groceries, nurse the dying, and keep the world running. One of the most pressing challenges we face is to make that lesson stick by sustaining the feelings of solidarity that link personal and collective wellness in what Martin Luther King Jr. characterized as “an inescapable network of mutuality”(“Letter from Birmingham Jail”) .  \nWe became aware of the links in that network when it crashed during the pandemic, but system failures were building to a critical overload in the decade that followed the Great Recession. The doubling of student debt to $1.7 trillion is only the most quantifiable measure of the trends that Linda Adler summarizes in “The ‘Long Covid’ of American Higher Education.” Our students have become overloaded with debt to earn degrees that seem “less and less likely to guarantee job security” while also trying to overcome deepening“economic, gend","cbCailtyRBG1SGa4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailtyRBG1SGa4","pdf",148199,18,"English","# Social resilience and collective wellness\n## Dignity, self-sufficiency, and hope\n## Critical hip hop pedagogy and collective action","[{\"question\":\"How does the essay link individual well-being to collective wellness?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that personal well-being is rooted in collective wellness across families, communities, students, coworkers, and service workers. Solidarity links feelings of hope in precarious times, showing well-being as interwoven rather than isolated.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does social resilience play in student hope and agency?\",\"answer\":\"Research on social resilience is presented as showing how dignity and self-sufficiency foster hope and enable collective agency. This frame supports culturally sustaining pedagogies by helping students sustain connectedness and act collectively.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is critical hip hop pedagogy highlighted in the essay?\",\"answer\":\"The essay uses critical hip hop pedagogy as an example of culturally engaged teaching that can cultivate social resilience. It does so by acknowledging the dignity of communal experiences and traditions to sustain hope and enable collective action.\"}]","Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies to Restore Individual and Collective Well-Being - Essay | PDF",1792088798,45]