A Burdensome Experiment
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A Burdensome Experiment

Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans after Katrina

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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans public school board fired nearly 7,500 teachers and employees. In the decade that followed, the city created the first urban public school system in the United States to be entirely contracted out to private management. Veteran educators, collectively referred to as the "backbone" of the city's Black middle class, were replaced by younger, less experienced, white teachers who lacked historical ties to the city. In A Burdensome Experiment, Christien Philmarc Tompkins argues that the privatization of New Orleans schools has made educators into a new kind of racialized worker. As school districts across the nation backslide on school integration, Tompkins asks, who exactly deserves to teach our children? The struggle over this question exposes the inherent antiblackness of charter school systems and the unequal burdens of school choice.

Detalls del llibre

Editorial
University of California Press
Any de publicació
2024
Col·lecció
Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
Idioma
Anglès
ISBN
9780520400948
LAN
ae07c8f2b99c

Formats

Tapa tova ePub