This Here Is For Our Survival: Poems of Tender Reckoning - Paperback

White, Jeffery C.: - Jeffery C. White is an educator, researcher, and poet from Brooklyn, New York. He has taught in carceral, college, and K-12 classrooms, treating teaching as ethnography; a daily discovery of how people learn, heal, and build capacity together. His practice is grounded in racial equity and liberatory learning that lives beyond policy into the small, durable moves of a real room. His scholarship examines mass incarceration, reentry, and the quiet routines through which power organizes everyday life. His poems lean toward witness and repair, listening for where love and memory meet principled refusal. He is shaped by the thoughts of James Baldwin, Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz), W.E.B. Du Bois and Black feminist scholars who made study a communal act and a civic duty. He begins a Sociology PhD in the Fall of 2025.