Pedagogy, Policy, and the Privatized City: Stories of Dispossession and Defiance from New Orleans
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Contributors include Michael W. Apple, Wayne Au, Adrienne D. Dixson, Maisha T. Fisher, Joyce E. King, Pauline Lipman, and Vanessa Siddle Walker.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780807750896 |
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Publisher: | Teachers College Press |
Publication date: | 05/01/2010 |
Series: | 0 |
Pages: | 208 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Forward! On the Freedom Dreams of Young Race Rebels Robin D. G. Kelley xi
Introduction 1
Counterstories on Pedagogy and Policy Making: Coming of Age in the Privatized City Kristen L. Buras 1
Scorching the Earth Isn't the Way: New Orleans Before and After Jim Randels Kalamu ya Salaam 15
1 "We have to Tell our Story": Neo-Griots, Schooling, and the Legacy of Racial Resistance in the other south Kristen L. Buras 17
2 Students at the Center: The Word, The River, and Education for Liberation 46
Opening Reflection
Forming a Mighty River Kristen L. Buras 46
Beginnings
It's the Working Conditions, Not the Teachers Jim Randels 50
The Power to Tell Our Stories
Speaking Out
Rain Ashley Jones 53
"Just Fill Me Up" Demetria White 56
The Stories in Me Gabrielle Turner 57
Commentary
Making Sense of Race Through Counter-Storytelling as Pedagogy Adrienne D. Dixson 59
Education for Liberation Rather Than Exploitation
Speaking Out
We Stand by Our Students Kalamu ya Salaam 65
Commentary
Soldiering On: Black Literate Lives Past and Present Maisha T. Fisher 72
Closing Reflection
Toward a Critical Reading of the Privatized City Kristen L. Buras 76
3 Race and Reform in the Privatized City 78
Opening Reflection
Capitalist Dreams Kristen L. Buras 78
State Abandonment and the Privatization of Education
Speaking Out
Forgotten by Our Government Deborah Carey 83
Worse Than Those Six Days Maria Hernandez 85
Does Anybody Know? Katrena Jackson-Ndang 87
Commentary
Making Schools "Right" Again: Whose Choice Is the Education Market? Michael W. Apple 88
Forceful Expulsion and the Exclusive Right to Home
Speaking Out
Missing Project Tyeasha Green 93
Who's Holding the Gun? Vinnessia Shelbia 94
Commentary
Racial Reform on Chicago's Home Front Pauline Lipman 95
Suppression of Veteran Teachers' Labor
Speaking Out
Passing on a Torch Jim Randels 101
I Don't Want to Go to That School Kirsten Theodore 103
Commentary
African American Teachers in the Old South and the New Vanessa Siddle Walker 104
Poetic Declaration of Rights to the City
Wake Up Damien Theodore 109
Closing Reflection
"I've Been Scarred and Battered": Warnings from Harlem, Washington, DC, and Beyond Kristen L. Buras 111
4 Putting all Students at the Center: Charting an Agenda for Urban Educational Transformation 114
Opening Reflection
From Capitalist Dreams to Freedom Dreams Kristen L. Buras 114
Challenging the Suppression of Identity and Knowledge
Speaking Out
No Black History in School Bruce Coleman 119
Breaking Free of Our Muted Existence Erica DeCuir 122
Commentary
Mis-Education or the Development of Critical Race Consciousness: Curriculum as Heritage Knowledge Joyce E. King 126
Demanding Rights to the Educational Commons
Speaking Out
Honoring Community Ashley Jones 131
Rebuilding New Orleans, Redoing Education Christopher Burton 133
The Story of Z: Lessons for Teachers and Educational Policy Makers Jim Randels 136
Commentary
Redesigning Urban Schools as Communities: A Grassroots Movement for Change Wayne Au 138
Closing Reflection
What's at Stake If We Don't Wake Up Kristen L. Buras 142
Conclusion 145
Schools, Cities, and Accumulation by Dispossession: A Word on the Indisposable Instruments of Liberation Kristen L. Buras 145
Contesting the Politics of Disposability Through Culture and Pedagogy
Speaking Out
Salvaging Our Culture and Our Schools Kalamu ya Salaam 153
I Would Not Throw It Out for Anything Jenna Dominique Hill 157
Afterword
Whiteness and New Orleans: Racio-Economic Analysis and the Politics of Urban Space Zeus Leonardo 159
References 163
About the Contributors 177
Index 183
What People are Saying About This
“This book is more than a compelling, inspiring read. It is one of the most radical works of collaboration I’ve seen (in the last four decades).”From the Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, University of Southern California
“In this powerfully written book, Buras skillfully weaves poetry with theoretically sophisticated analysis and contributors provide remarkably rich data. Together they affirm the pedagogical significance of critical race counter-storytelling for urban youth of color.” Tara J. Yosso, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Critical Race Counterstories Along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline
“In education the neoliberal onslaught of racialized ‘smash and grab’ privatization accelerates unabated, with broad-based global pillaging of the public sector. This book could not be a more timely and valuable example to inspire the critical consciousness necessary to take back public schools.”Kenneth J. Saltman, Associate Professor, DePaul University and author of Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools