Justice, justice : school politics and the eclipse of liberalism / Daniel H. Perlstein. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perlstein, Daniel H. (Daniel Hiram)

Series:

History of schools and schooling ; v. 40.

History of schools & schooling, 1089-0678 ; v. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community and school--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Community and school.

Schools--Decentralization--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Schools.

Educational equalization--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Educational equalization.

African Americans--Education--Social aspects--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Community and school--History--20th century--New York (State)--New York.

Schools--History--Decentralization--20th century--New York (State)--New York.

Educational equalization--History--20th century--New York--New York (State).

African Americans--Social aspects--Education--History--20th Century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 218 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A study of teacher organizing, civil rights movement activism, and urban education, Justice, Justice: School Politics and the Eclipse of Liberalism recounts how teachers' and activists' ideals shaped the school crisis and placed them at the epicenter of America's racial conflict. Taking into account much of twentieth-century American history to uncover the roots of the school conflict, this book illuminates the dilemmas and hopes that continue to shape urban schools."--Jacket.

Contents:

Worldviews in collision

Race, class, and the triumph of teacher unionism

The ambiguities of identity : whiteness, ethnicity, and the racial politics of schooling

Teachers for community control : the limits of anti-racism

Up against the leviathan : teaching for democratic community

The case against community : Bayard Rustin and the Black proletariat

Milton Galamison and the integrationist ideal

From community organizing to community control : Sonny Carson and the redefinition of Black community

Visible men : Black teachers and the curricular implications of Black power

Schools and social justice in the post-liberal city.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-209) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8204-8102-5