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This is our school! : race and community resistance to school reform / Hava Rachel Gordon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (303 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781479811403
  • 1479811408
  • 1479843636
  • 9781479843633
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: This is our school!DDC classification:
  • 379.2/60973 23
LOC classification:
  • LC213.2 .G68 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
The national context: Neoliberal education reform, race, and resistance -- The reformers: Race, privilege, and saving children from disaster -- The dispossessed: Neighborhood activists beating back gentrification -- Fragile alliances: Cross-racial solidarity and conflict in community claims to the neighborhood school -- No permanent enemies, no permanent allies: The politics of reformer-community nonprofit partnerships.
Summary: "The book provides a rich description of four movement sectors in one city all claiming to fight for educational justice. It combines theoretical insight from studies of urban reform, neoliberalism, education and social movements, and integrates rich ethnographic detail and activist narratives to illustrate education movement victories and defeats"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The national context: Neoliberal education reform, race, and resistance -- The reformers: Race, privilege, and saving children from disaster -- The dispossessed: Neighborhood activists beating back gentrification -- Fragile alliances: Cross-racial solidarity and conflict in community claims to the neighborhood school -- No permanent enemies, no permanent allies: The politics of reformer-community nonprofit partnerships.

"The book provides a rich description of four movement sectors in one city all claiming to fight for educational justice. It combines theoretical insight from studies of urban reform, neoliberalism, education and social movements, and integrates rich ethnographic detail and activist narratives to illustrate education movement victories and defeats"-- Provided by publisher.

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